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The Building Safety (Remediation of Unsafe Cladding etc) Bill proposes a new register of occupied medium rise residential buildings in England. This blog looks at what registration may involve and how owners and managers can prepare.
The Building Safety (Leaseholder Protections) (Information etc) (England) Regulations 2022 (regulation 5) allows current landlords faced with remediation costs for certain building safety defects to recover specified percentage contributions to those costs from other landlords where recovery from building leaseholders via the service charge is prohibited under Schedule 8 to the Building Safety Act.
The Government has introduced the Building Safety (Remediation of Unsafe Cladding etc) Bill to accelerate the identification and remediation of residential buildings with unsafe cladding. This is the first in a series of blogs from the Mills & Reeve Construction and Engineering team examining the Bill.
The latest decision from the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) on remediation orders is about the increasingly thorny issue of seeking to vary (extend) the time for compliance with a remediation order.
In July, the Government launched a consultation on the emergency repairs route under the higher-risk buildings (HRB) regime with the aim of improving proportionality and outcomes in building control.
When Mills & Reeve assembled a team of lawyers from across the built environment sector to explain the Building Safety Levy back in May, I somehow made the team discuss the 50% discount which applies to previously developed sites.
Another recent decision of the First-tier Tribunal (FTT) concerns a remediation order (RO) made in respect of Oyster Bay Apartments in Poole.
The BSR has announced plans to revise its approach to BACs for occupied higher-risk buildings, moving towards what it describes as a more "proportionate", "intelligence-led" and "risk-based" assessment model.
This blog discusses the recent £3.68 million Remediation Contribution Order made by the First-tier Tribunal in relation to fire safety remediation works under section 124 of the Building Safety Act 2022.
We don’t often see enforcement of an adjudicator’s decision successfully defended on grounds of a breach of natural justice, but it happened in the recent case of Premier Modular Limited v Maidstone and Tunbridge Wells NHS Trust [2026] EWHC 1404 (TCC).
The recent Deerns UK Limited v VDC LHR11 Limited [2026] EWHC 1509 (TCC) judgment confirms that the final date for payment must be a fixed period, calculated from the due date with no provision to vary or extend the final date.
In the recent First-tier Tribunal decision of City of Lincoln Council v Plantview Limited, the Council sought a remediation contribution order (RCO) under the Building Safety Act 2022 against Plantview Limited in slightly unusual circumstances.