1 October 2026 marks the start of the Building Safety Levy, introduced after Grenfell to help fund the remediation of unsafe residential buildings and improve overall building safety standards.

The draft regulations setting out how the Building Safety Levy will operate have been laid in Parliament before final approval.

In this Q&A, Simon Lewis and Michelle Essen set out some important information about the levy so construction can get to grips with it before its implementation in Autumn 2026.

The Building Safety Levy will come into effect in Autumn 2026, the government has confirmed.

The Scottish government has secured powers from Westminster to introduce a tax to fix unsafe cladding in the country.

Who are the developers who have joined the government’s Responsible Actors Scheme designed to make developers pay for past safety failings?

The government has launched its Cladding Safety Scheme: a fund for residential buildings to fix dangerous cladding.

Dandara Living is the latest developer to sign the government’s building safety remediation contract, leaving only two names in the list of firms that have not done it yet.

Michael Gove named this week the eleven developers that have failed to meet the deadline to sign a safety contract pledging to fix fire safety issues.

The government is consulting developers and other interested parties on its proposed Building Safety Levy.

Members of the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) have broadly agreed that the proposed Building Safety Levy should be the responsibility of the client.

The Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB) has launched a survey to gauge members’ views on the proposed Building Safety Levy.