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Building Safety Fund guidance for leaseholders The Building Safety Fund was launched by the government in 2020 to cover the costs of remediating unsafe non-ACM cladding on residential buildings measuring more than 18 metres in height, where the developers responsible for the property haven’t committed to rectifying safety defects. It was paused for a while […]
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What are the new fire safety regulations? Following the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, the UK government issued new fire safety regulations, which came into force on January 23rd, 2023. The purpose of these new fire safety regulations is to improve the safety of blocks of flats in a way that is proportionate to the risk of […]
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What is an EWS1 Survey? An EWS1 survey is an investigation into the exterior walls of a building to ensure that they do not present a fire risk – it is purely for the benefit of valuers who use the results as part of a mortgage valuation process and is not a government or official […]
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The new Building Safety Act came into force in April 2022 and was drawn up to make those responsible for safety defects in residential buildings liable to fix them and to protect leaseholders from the costs associated with remediation. It is an overhaul of regulations that already existed and outlines how new residential buildings should […]
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Fire compartmentation refers to a building’s fire safety in terms of how quickly smoke and fire would spread from one compartment (such as a flat) to other parts of the building through areas that should be sealed, such as riser cupboards. In order to find out if a building’s fire compartmentation offers adequate fire resistance […]
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The EWS1 form was launched in 2018 after new safety regulations were introduced for cladding on residential buildings. It’s a form for lenders and valuers that certifies whether or not any residential building with cladding that is potentially combustible, has undergone a fire safety assessment. When the EWS1 was introduced, it applied to buildings more […]
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PAS 9980 and its role in Building Safety Fund applications The government launched its Building Safety Fund (BSF) in 2020 as part of its commitment to funding the remediation of unsafe cladding on high-rise buildings of 18 metres or more in height, with a 30cm tolerance. The fund is part of the wider Building […]
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Who Pays for Cladding Replacement? Do you live in, own or manage a building with unsafe cladding? In this post we’ll explore the question of who pays for cladding replacement in residential buildings, whilst looking at the government-backed support available for different-sized buildings. The devastating fire at Grenfell Tower in June 2017 will never […]
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It has been confirmed that 49 Developers have signed the Government’s pledge committing to rectify critical life safety defects in buildings, 11m or higher, they constructed over the last 30 years. Developers will also be contributing to an extension of the Building Safety Fund by way of the Developer Levy being imposed on all new […]
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The Government announced on 14th February 2022 that tough new measures were being introduced to protect Leaseholders from remediation costs and force Developers into ‘doing the right thing’. The measures announced by Mr Gove include: Developers and product manufacturers that do not help fix the cladding scandal could be blocked from housing market Government puts […]
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