Another great piece concisely explaining yet another aspect of Britain's over-complicated, restrictive building regulation. It all sounds like a massive headache for developers.
Another case where our government incompetently (or intentionally?) plasters layers of redundant and conflicting legislation on top of one another, until it is impossible for the everyday person or even the average journalist to figure out why supply can't meet demand.
There is a real problem of regulatory statism amongst our political class that continues to stifle change.
I own a flat which was deemed to need 'cladding remediation'. The flat is about 13 years old. The 'remediation' will cost more than the original cost of building the flat. The building control and regulation aspects of the remediation are mind-boggling. An awful lot of consultants and architects will become very wealthy as a result of the work, but as a country we will be all worse off. A simple fire safety survey, costs £40K, because professional indemnity premiums have become insanely high for anyone involved in these works.
It's always possible this is what the drafters intended.
Most government policy has had the effect of making building more difficult, and many (most?) people working in government departments, agencies & quangos seem to oppose building for one reason or another
Another great piece concisely explaining yet another aspect of Britain's over-complicated, restrictive building regulation. It all sounds like a massive headache for developers.
Another case where our government incompetently (or intentionally?) plasters layers of redundant and conflicting legislation on top of one another, until it is impossible for the everyday person or even the average journalist to figure out why supply can't meet demand.
There is a real problem of regulatory statism amongst our political class that continues to stifle change.
I own a flat which was deemed to need 'cladding remediation'. The flat is about 13 years old. The 'remediation' will cost more than the original cost of building the flat. The building control and regulation aspects of the remediation are mind-boggling. An awful lot of consultants and architects will become very wealthy as a result of the work, but as a country we will be all worse off. A simple fire safety survey, costs £40K, because professional indemnity premiums have become insanely high for anyone involved in these works.
It's always possible this is what the drafters intended.
Most government policy has had the effect of making building more difficult, and many (most?) people working in government departments, agencies & quangos seem to oppose building for one reason or another
Seems plausible that this is not an accident