The government’s Building Safety Levy is no joke
Repeat something often enough and it will slide eventually into comedy. As numerous TV sketch shows have demonstrated, any phrase can become a catchphrase. It doesn’t even have to make sense.
19 March 25
Repeat something often enough and it will slide eventually into comedy. As numerous TV sketch shows have demonstrated, any phrase can become a catchphrase. It doesn’t even have to make sense.
19 March 25
Housing secretary Angela Rayner has permission to provide oral or written evidence to reinforce the argument that building owners are liable for safety-related costs.
19 March 25
Muse completed The Filigree scheme in Lewisham last year, with Balfour Beatty as main contractor.
18 March 25
The Home Builders Federation (HBF) has sent a letter signed by over 100 housebuilders to chancellor Rachel Reeves calling for a suspension to the Building Safety Levy.
5 March 25
Delay at gateway two safety stage pushes back completion of 500-bed Freestone Island development by a year, to 2027.
27 February 25
The government's Building Safety Regulator has hit back at criticism over capacity constraints and delays to developers, stating it is "working to put this right".
26 February 25
The final report of the Grenfell Tower inquiry, published in September last year, made no specific recommendations to improve the behaviour of ‘clients’, the blanket term applied to building owners and developers.
26 February 25
Speaking in the House of Commons today (26 February), the housing secretary set out the government’s response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 report.
26 February 25
Three-stage safety approval process is hampering schemes' viability, according to independent body that identifies barriers to development.
25 February 25
Siderise launched the judicial review as it claimed its exclusion from local projects was “unwarranted” and that RBKC’s decision stood “without foundation or justification”.