A cladding firm has been forced to let staff go over financial pressures and ongoing delays in projects starting due to “hold-ups with Building Safety [BSR] approval”
As reported by Construction Enquirer, workers at EuroWindows, an aluminium cladding supplier and installer, were issued redundancy notices earlier this month (November 2025).
An employee told the Enquirer: “EuroWindows like many others has had to close their doors due to financial pressures and the constant delays in projects starting due to BSR.”
Another mentioned two projects had been delayed by the regulator “for months”: “We should have been in the middle of a great two years, but with insufficient other work to go round to fill the gap the delays created, cashflow was depleted,” they said.
In October 2025, an investigation by Peter Apps for Inside Housing revealed the true extent of BSR delays on building projects progressing, with new building contracts having to take into account “potential 12-month delay between full design drawings and the start of work”.
Mark London, a partner in the construction team at law firm Devonshires, told Apps: “We now have to negotiate into contracts terms that deal with the likelihood of BSR delay, including for inflationary uplifts to prices and commencement dates, to name just two. That is purely because we have no idea when we’re going to ultimately get BSR approval for work.”
Whilst the BSR has said it has been able to speed up its review and approval processes in recent months, it has cited a lack of in-house technical staff as a reason for some of the delays, particularly for those applications requiring complex decisions.
Other delays had been caused by “a lack of sufficient detail” or information provided within submissions, the regulator noted. As reported by the FPA, in its most recent (October 2025) data release on the building control applications it has received, BSR said that it had been it had made a number of “operational and policy changes to speed up decision-making”.
“While it is still early to measure the full impact of these, we are seeing positive results.”
Building applications submitted to the regulator have also been facing additional challenges. Most recently, it was reported that building control firm Assent and two of its subsidiaries entered into insolvency following a pre-tax loss of £2.2 million. It is understood that at least ten high-rise building projects were impacted by the company ceasing its trading, with the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) issuing an operational notice to project owners, emphasising the importance of appointing a new registered building control approver as soon as possible as a statutory requirement.