Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Regulatory Horizons Council: the Future Regulation of Space TechnologiesFound: materials from space can be used to manufacture objects and replacement parts – or even construct buildings
Apr. 25 2024
Source Page: Scottish Government Planning Guidance - Local living and 20 minute neighbourhoodsFound: Local living approaches increase opportunities for re-using and adapting existing buildings and places
Found: demised premises, (c) work that detrimentally affects the safety of the building, including fire
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, what steps his Department has taken to ensure that when a building owner enters administration, qualifying leaseholders remain protected from non-cladding remediation costs under the Building Safety Act.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
The costs of remediation will only fall on leaseholders in the event some or all of the leaseholders choose to buy the freehold collectively and take over the rights and responsibilities of being the freeholder. Otherwise, the responsibilities will remain with the freeholder or, following the conclusion of any insolvency proceedings, with the party who acquires the freehold following termination of the insolvency. In which case, the leaseholder protections will apply.
As a result, qualifying leaseholders under the leaseholder protections in the Building Safety Act 2022 will remain protected in law from the costs of non-cladding historical safety defects being passed on to them through the service charge (under the terms of the protections).
Should a building owner become insolvent and enter administration, interested parties including leaseholders can also potentially look to pursue a previous freeholder, developer and any associated company or person for remediation costs through a Remediation Contribution Order and also have the potential to pursue developers, contractors or manufacturers where they are liable for defects which meant one or more dwellings in the building was not fit for habitation when the relevant works were completed.
Mentions:
1: Fleur Anderson (Lab - Putney) I saw their much-needed and developed plans to replace their portacabins with buildings, answering their - Speech Link
2: Craig Whittaker (Con - Calder Valley) Friend the Member for Stoke-on-Trent North (Jonathan Gullis) mentioned earlier, is absolutely on fire - Speech Link
3: Oliver Dowden (Con - Hertsmere) That is also why we are rolling out a range of crime prevention measures through the safer streets fund - Speech Link
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: Recovered appeal: land to the north of Cambridge North Station, Cambridge (ref: 3315611 - 23 April 2024)Found: Tender Tracking (Sheet 1 of 2) October 2022 05425 -C-2204 -P2 Fire Tender Tracking (Sheet 2 of 2
Apr. 23 2024
Source Page: A9 Dualling Programme and A75 Upgrade: EIR releaseFound: including across the transport system and flooding defences; • Further delay to Just Transition, Heat in Buildings
Mentions:
1: Burgess, Ariane (Green - Highlands and Islands) The next group of amendments is on fire safety measures. - Speech Link
2: Simpson, Graham (Con - Central Scotland) prevention may become evident during the process of assessing and remediating unsafe cladding, it’s - Speech Link
3: McLennan, Paul (SNP - East Lothian) I said that I would contact him in writing about the wider fire safety issues. - Speech Link
4: Briggs, Miles (Con - Lothian) The first, amendment 1, is on other buildings. - Speech Link
Found: BARONESS FOX OF BUCKLEY 85_ After Clause 69, insert the following new Clause— “Prevention of
Asked by: Mike Amesbury (Labour - Weaver Vale)
Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:
To ask the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, pursuant to the Answer of 2 April 2024 to Question 19958 on Flats: Fire Prevention, if he will make it his policy to commit to quality assurance measures equivalent to the Self Remediation Terms including a post-remediation Qualifying Assessment.
Answered by Lee Rowley - Minister of State (Minister for Housing)
As the answer provided on 2 April indicates, only three buildings under 11m have been found to require some form of remediation to date. The Department expects the developers of any unsafe buildings under 11m to take responsibility for remediating them in accordance with the appropriate standard and deal with the risks identified in the Fire Risk Assessment and Fire Risk Appraisal of External Walls as soon as reasonably practicable.