Leaseholders were joined by MPs of all parties at a last-ditch protest on Wednesday to ensure no flat owner faces surprise cash calls after falling through the gaps of the government’s elaborate measures to make housebuilders pay for the building safety scandal. Too many people have been exploiting you and millions like you and we can’t have that in a decent, democratic society.”Crossbench peer Baroness (Claire) Fox was successful in persuading government to scrap the Building Safety Managers policy. These points were echoed by MPs across the House of Commons on Wednesday who, following the protest, sat to discuss the Building Safety Bill for one of the last times before it enters law. We welcome many of those amendments, particularly the removal of the building safety charge and the abolition of building safety managers, and we also welcome the important concessions the Government made in the other place in response to Labour amendments—for example, to exempt social housing providers from the levy. Some pointed out that the heavily trailed DLUHC and Law Commission leasehold reforms set for the Queen’s Speech could include a few helpful building safety related policies.

Source: The Times April 22, 2022 17:56 UTC