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Proposed Amendments to the Building Safety Bill
Further 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 >
The Building Safety Bill: Draft Secondary Legislation published for Gateway One in England
From 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 >
Building a safer future: The Fire Safety Bill
The 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 >
Building a Safer Future: New regulator means safer construction products and materials
As those who have followed media coverage of the Grenfell Inquiry will be aware, it has highlighted the dishonest practice seemingly employed by some manufacturers of construction products. As observed by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick, “the Grenfell Inquiry has heard deeply disturbing allegations of malpractice by some construction product manufacturers and their employees and of… Read More >
Webinar: Where will the Golden Thread Lead? the Draft Building Safety Bill
The Draft Building Safety Bill (“the Draft Bill”) is the government’s long awaited response to the Grenfell fire and Dame Judith Hackitt’s 2018 review of the building industry, “Building a Safer Future”. The Draft Bill sets out a proposed new regulatory regime for those involved in the design, construction and approval of high rise residential… Read More >
The draft Building Safety Bill – changes afoot?
In 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 >
Webinar: External Wall Fire Safety and Form EWS1
Will Buckby and Ian Masser discuss the ongoing industry challenges surrounding external wall fire safety on buildings over 18m in height. The position in relation to new developments is now relatively clear given the 2018 Building (Amendment) Regulations, which banned the use of combustible materials anywhere on buildings over 18m in height. But what about… Read More >
Building a Safer Future? Draft Building Safety Bill
On 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 – latest reforms
This week saw the announcement of new building safety reforms by Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick MP. The proposals show a clear obligation for building owners/leaseholders to press on with remediation work as soon as possible, and evidence a move away from the emphasis on building height as a threshold for building safety requirements. In this… Read More >
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