Regulator’s strategy involves dedicated account managers to improve applicant engagement and recruitment drive to expand regulatory lead capacity.

The Building Safety Regulator’s (BSR) latest performance data reveals that while overall Gateway 2 activity is progressing, remediation decision times are failing to meet expected targets.

The government’s reset of the New Hospital Programme (NHP) has put the scheme on a “more realistic timetable” but significant delivery risks remain, according to a new National Audit Office (NAO) report.

The London Fire Brigade will start “a full investigation” into the causes of a huge fire that ripped through a block of flats in Dagenham, east London, in the early hours of Monday.

Housebuilder Barratt has set aside £192m to fix building safety defects affecting legacy properties in its portfolio: £12.8m more than in the previous fiscal year.

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

Insurance giant Axa UK is providing body cameras to contractors to keep a record of remediation work being carried out on buildings that contain flammable cladding and insulation. The recordings…

All 51 developers are now signed up to the government’s building safety remediation contract brought in post the Grenfell Tower tragedy, according to updated lists.

The Construction Leadership Council is calling for clients and contractors to take part in a defect data pilot in partnership with the Get It Right Initiative.

The government has launched its responsible actors scheme that requires major residential developers to pay for building safety remediations.

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.

The government will use various tools to force major developers to pick up the tab for correcting historic building defects, writes Tim Seal.

London Square, Telford Homes and Ballymore are the latest developers to sign the government’s building safety remediation contract after missing the 13 March deadline.

The government has revealed details of its new £1bn building safety fund to remove dangerous cladding from high-rise buildings. The fund will meet the cost for removing unsafe non-ACM cladding…