On Wednesday 24th July, we met Rushanara Ali, who is now the Minister responsible for building safety in the Labour government. We were told that the meeting would be 30 minutes, and we were asked to present our key aims and issues for discussion.
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On 2nd September, Angela Rayner, the new Secretary of State for Housing, will answer questions from MPs in the House of Commons for the first time, alongside other ministers in the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
If you want to make sure that the building safety scandal stays high on the Government’s agenda, please contact your MP and ask them to raise a question. The deadline to submit questions is 12.30pm on 27th August so please do this as soon as you can. You can find your MP’s contact details at WriteToThem.
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The pace of making homes safe has been shockingly slow in the seven years since Grenfell. We welcome the new government’s intention to accelerate remediation, but it must hold all parties to account, with firm deadlines and real consequences for delays, otherwise building profitable new homes will continue to take precedence over making existing homes safe, responsible parties will continue to focus on minimising their own liabilities ahead of making homes safe, and leaseholders and residents will remain trapped.
Continue reading “Our statement on Minister Ali’s letter to the major developers”
After recently attending Persimmon’s 2024 shareholder AGM, we arranged a follow-up meeting on 2nd July to discuss the company’s building safety remediation programme in more depth.
We met with Andy Fuller, group construction director; Anthony Vigor, group director of strategic partnerships and external affairs; and Martin Edgeley, group special projects director with a day-to-day focus on the building safety remediation programme.
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We first met the Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE) in December 2023. We have been meeting regularly since then and the following is a summary of our meeting in April.
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