A greater insight into the golden thread

23 July 2021

Advisory group publishes report setting out the principles of the golden thread intended to form part of a ‘pivotal’ culture change in the building industry.

EWS1 forms to be scrapped for buildings under 18 metres

22 July 2021

The Government confirmed that EWS1 forms won’t be needed to sell flats in buildings under 18 metres, but MPs are unhappy, calling the announcement in Parliament a ‘shambles’.

Consultation on new building safety tax launched

22 July 2021

Proposals for a new tax on developers will only affect 200 housing developments in a year and with no estimates of how much money this will bring in, how far it will go to offset the costs of fire...

Betts marks Housing Ministry’s homework and finds room for improvement

21 July 2021

The Chair of the Housing Select Committee has thanked the Government for its detailed response to its scrutiny of the Building Safety Bill, but there are many questions outstanding and no solution to...

Competence, culture and capacity

20 July 2021

Speakers at an online industry event agreed that competence is key to improving building fire safety, but there are cultural and capacity issues to wrestle with too. 

Slow start to spending Waking Watch Relief Fund

19 July 2021

Figures released by the Housing Ministry show only twelve per cent of new applications for the Waking Watch Relief Fund have been successful so far.