The Building Safety Bill has now received Royal Assent and is due to become law shortly. On 10th May, we held a Q&A Webinar on the Building Safety Act, where Liam Spender provided an overview of the forthcoming law and impact to leaseholders and service charges. You can download the presentation Liam gave here and the video can be watched below.
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With the Building Safety Bill due to become law in the coming weeks, and with all leaseholders still not fully protected, we have written to the Chancellor to ask him to agree to the Government replacing leaseholders as the final stage of the waterfall and to provide up-front funding wherever it is required.
Our view is that this is the only way to provide true certainty to leaseholders and the housing market. Read our letter here.
It is nearly five years since the catastrophic fire at Grenfell Tower. The Grenfell Tower Inquiry has shown how the Civil Service and ex-Ministers failed to act on repeated warnings, largely due to the deregulatory landscape.
Continue reading “Why we need better protection in the Building Safety Bill”
On 11th March 2022 the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Select Committee published the “Building Safety: Remediation and Funding” report. This is a House of Commons Committee report, with recommendations to government. The Government has two months to respond.
We welcome this important report, and we thank members of the Select Committee for their dedication to ensure there is justice for all innocent victims of this crisis. We echo the strong words of Chair Clive Betts – it truly is shameful that this situation is yet to be properly resolved.
Continue reading “Our Statement on LUHC Select Committee’s Building Safety: Remediation and Funding Report”
We responded to the recent LUHC Select Committee’s Inquiry on Building Safety: Remediation and Funding.
You can read our full written submission here, including our “asks”.
Our Asks:
Successive governments (and the same civil servants in charge of building regulations) have allowed the UK’s regulatory system to remain inadequate, weak, and gameable despite repeated warnings over the decades including reports after fires.
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Today’s announcement is the most positive step forward we have yet seen in the building safety crisis. Finally, nearly five long years after the Grenfell tragedy, the penny seems to have dropped with the government that leaseholders are the innocent party and that the polluters who caused this crisis must be the ones to pay to fix it.
Continue reading “Proposed Amendments to the Building Safety Bill”This is a guide to the McPartland-Smith amendments to the Building Safety Bill, as at 12 November 2021. We recommend that you read it together with the amendments. Many thanks to Liam Spender for providing this helpful summary.
Continue reading “Summary of McPartland-Smith amendments to the Building Safety Bill”
On 8th November, the Housing, Communities and Local Government Select Committee questioned Secretary of State, Michael Gove, on a range of subjects including Building Safety. You can read our statement following Mr Gove’s appearance here.
In partnership with our co-founder UKCAG, we have now submitted our written evidence to the Public Bill Committee considering the Building Safety Bill and you can read it here.
Thank you to everyone who helped with this submission.
This is a guide to the McPartland-Smith amendments to the Building Safety Bill, as at 27 July 2021. We recommend that you read it together with the amendments. Many thanks to Liam Spender for providing this helpful summary.
Continue reading “Building Safety Bill: McPartland-Smith Amendments”