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Building Safety Bill: Professional Indemnity Implications
January 2022Following the Grenfell tragedy and in response to the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety led by Dame Judith Hackitt, the Government published the draft Building Safety Bill (“the Bill”) in July 2020. The final version of the Bill was introduced in the House of Commons on 5 July 2021 and will likely… Read More >
Building Safety Bill – New Proposed Draft Regulations
October 2021On the 14th October, the Government updated and published a series of six draft Regulations to accompany the Building Safety Bill (“the Bill”), which continues to make its way through parliament and is on track to become law in 2022. Together with those published on 5th July, these draft Regulations are yet to become finalised,… Read More >
Proposed Amendments to the Building Safety Bill
September 2021Further to our article Building Safety Bill: A new landscape for claims under the defective premises act 1972? in July 2021, various iterations of the Building Safety Bill (Amendment paper) are being submitted by the House of Commons Committee and we wanted to pick up and highlight two key issues the first which seeks to… Read More >
Building Safety Bill: A new landscape for claims under the Defective Premises Act 1972?
July 2021Yesterday, the Government published the Building Safety Bill (the “Bill”), which was first announced in draft form in July 2020 and intends to strengthen the regulatory system for building safety following the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017. This article discusses the changes the Bill proposes to introduce to the Defective Premises Act 1972 (the… Read More >
The Building Safety Bill: Draft Secondary Legislation published for Gateway One in England
May 2021From 1 August 2021, the Government is intending to introduce several new requirements into the planning system by making amendments to the Town and Country Planning (Development Management Procedure) (England) Order 2015 (as amended) (the “Order”). This marks the first stage of the Government’s implementation of the requirements outlined in the draft Building Safety Bill… Read More >
The draft Building Safety Bill – changes afoot?
December 2020In July 2020, following a consultation on proposals for reforming the building safety system¹, the government published the draft Building Safety Bill (“the Bill”). In an article earlier this year (linked here) we considered the provisions included within the Bill, which is intended to reform the building safety system following the Grenfell Tower fire in… Read More >
Building a Safer Future? Draft Building Safety Bill
July 2020On 20 July 2020 the UK Government published the long awaited draft Building Safety Bill (“the Draft Bill”), setting out proposals for reform of the regulatory regime for building fire and safety in England. In this article, Nathan Modell and Courtney Clark discuss some of the changes introduced by the Draft Bill and how this… Read More >
Building a Safer Future: Unamended Fire Safety Bill to become law
May 2021The Fire Safety Bill has passed through Parliament following a long-running debate over who pays the costs of cladding remediation works and other fire prevention measures. The House of Lords sought to include a proposal which would prevent remediation costs for fire safety deficiencies being passed on to leaseholders. However, the House of Lord’s motion… Read More >
Building a safer future: The Fire Safety Bill
March 2021The Fire Safety Bill is part of a series of proposed changes to fire and building safety following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. It seeks to amend the Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 to clarify that the responsible person or duty-holder for residential buildings containing one or more homes must manage and reduce the risk of fire for: The structure and external walls of… Read More >
Budget 2020: £1 billion Building Safety Fund announced
March 2020In the 2020 Budget, the chancellor announced the creation of a £1 billion Building Safety Fund to address the issue of unsafe external cladding on high-rise buildings. In this article, Ian Masser and Charlotte Gooch provide more information on the fund, what the fund covers and who can apply. To read the full article, please… Read More >