HOUSING NEWS
CONTROL ISSUES
THE new watchdog set up to oversee the safety of high-rise residential buildings in England is having a major overhaul and change of leadership just two years into its operation. What’s gone wrong?
The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) has a vast remit, replacing private consultants and local authorities as sole provider of “building control” functions for high-rise residential contracts via a “Gateway” process, whereby builders must prove compliance at the planning stage and again at completion – to ensure what is built matches the design.