{"id":95686,"date":"2021-07-05T09:05:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-05T08:05:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/?p=95686"},"modified":"2021-07-05T09:05:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-05T08:05:29","slug":"building-safety-bill-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pbctoday.co.uk\/news\/building-control-news\/building-safety-bill-5\/95686\/","title":{"rendered":"Government publishes new Building Safety Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"

The government has published its Building Safety Bill to set out a pathway for the way residential towers are constructed and maintained<\/h2>\n

Housing secretary Robert Jenrick will outline the next key step in an extensive overhaul to building safety legislation<\/a>, giving residents more power to hold\u202fbuilders and developers to account and toughening sanctions against those who threaten their safety.<\/p>\n

At the heart of the plan is the creation of a new Building Safety Regulator<\/a> to ensure that any building safety risks in new and existing high rise residential buildings of 18m and above are effectively managed and resolved, taking cost into account.<\/p>\n

This will include implementing specific gateway points at design, construction and completion phases to ensure that safety is considered at every stage of a building\u2019s construction and planning.<\/p>\n

These changes will simplify the existing system to ensure high standards are met, with a \u2018golden thread\u2019 of information<\/a> created, stored and updated throughout the building\u2019s lifecycle.<\/p>\n

\u2018Ensuring high standard of safety\u2019<\/h3>\n

Robert Jenrick, said: \u201cThis Bill will ensure high standards of safety for people\u2019s homes, and in particular for high-rise buildings<\/a>, with a new regulator providing essential oversight at every stage of a building\u2019s lifecycle, from design, construction, completion to occupation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe new building safety regime will be a proportionate one, ensuring those buildings requiring remediation are brought to an acceptable standard of safety swiftly, and reassuring the vast majority of residents and leaseholders in those buildings that their homes are safe.\u201d<\/p>\n

The reforms will tackle bad practice head on, building on Dame Judith Hackitt\u2019s review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety.<\/p>\n

The government is more than doubling the amount of time, from 6 to 15 years, that residents can seek compensation for substandard construction work.<\/p>\n

The changes will apply retrospectively. This means that residents of a building completed in 2010 would be able to bring proceedings against the developer until 2025.<\/p>\n

New measures in the Building Safety Bill introduced will:<\/h3>\n