Building Safety Bill – your support is invited
Since the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, CIAT has been involved with the activity to create the new building safety regime, which will affect all our members and affiliates across the UK.
Whilst CIAT wholeheartedly supports the principles behind the Building Safety Bill and what it is trying to achieve; and as such is a key player in the response to the Hackitt Review and the changes necessary to protect life, we continue to raise serious concerns on certain aspects which remain in the latest iteration of the Building Safety Bill.
The Building Safety Bill covers England but also in part the whole of the UK continues to raise some serious concerns which we have identified and which we consider require urgent review and attention to ensure that the Bill provides for the best outcome for the Industry, clients, owners and users.
These cover the following:
- Amendments to Defective Premises Act and Limitation Act
- Building Liability Orders
- Architects Act
The detail is contained in the attached document "Building Safety Bill | CIAT invites further scrutiny on key issues: CIAT's response to the latest draft of the Building Safety Bill".
To support your Institute, we would ask that you send the attached document with your own personal covering message to your local MP with the hope they take cognisance of these concerns to ensure that the Building Safety Bill can satisfy the intent under which it was drafted. This contact should be undertaken ASAP as time is against us.
To check who your constituent MP is and/or if you wish to contact a Lord as well, please see the link here which provides you with the mechanism to make contact.
Alternatively, you could arrange to visit your MP directly, although time is against us.
CIAT continues to work directly with both the Building Safety and Architects' Policy divisions of the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) in this regard.
The development of the new Building Safety regimes, as they impact our members and affiliates in each of the four home nations is ongoing, and you will be able to follow the Institute's activity on this together with that of the relevant home nation governments by visiting our website.
If you can keep us updated with any contact and/or feedback you have that would be very much appreciated. Please send this directly to me at [email protected].
Thank you
Francesca Berriman MBE
Chief Executive
