Andrew Parker on the new Remediation Acceleration Plan
Andrew Parker, Head of Construction Disputes, spoke with PBC Today and The Construction Index, on the challenge of resourcing the Government’s new Remediation Acceleration Plan.
This plan has outlined three key objectives: (1) fix buildings faster, (2) identify all buildings with unsafe cladding, (3) support residents with the ultimate aim that by the end of 2029, all 11m+ buildings with unsafe cladding have either been remediated or have a date for completion.
Read the full articles in PBC Today and The Construction Index.
Subcribe to news and viewsThe Government’s Remediation Acceleration Plan is seeking to increase the pace of remediation across 18m and 11m residential buildings, putting in place legislation and new regulatory powers to ensure buildings have a clear remediation plan and timeline. Ensuring leaseholders have clarity and certainty about the safety of their buildings and the timings of remediation work is welcome but the key challenge, which the Government does acknowledge, is the availability of suitably skilled professionals and contractors qualified to design and implement the required remediation works. Regulation will sharpen people’s minds, but the pace can only improve when all parts of the construction industry and regulatory bodies are effectively resourced, and this will take time.
https://www.pbctoday.co.uk/news/building-control-news/new-remediation-acceleration-plan-pledges-to-remove-all-dangerous-cladding-on-high-rise-buildings-by-2030/146579/
