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‘Pull up your boots’, Dame Hackitt tells industry leaders
0.4% Rise in monthly construction output in September 2023. Source: ONS
and it starts with a culture overhaul to encourage real ownership – overseen by a regulator with powers to impose serious sanctions for those who continue to try and game the system. “To make this happen, it’s no longer enough to focus simply on complying with rules. Those who continue to wait for rounds of secondary regulation are missing the point... Now is the time for the industry to pull up its boots and deliver quality buildings that can withstand the test of time. Feeling safe in a home, workplace or school is a basic human right and the construction industry has a responsibility to deliver it – let’s make sure this new system works.”
Dame Judith Hackitt, former Chair of the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety, recently addressed industry leaders at the 2023 Construction Leaders’ Summit on improving building safety, compliance and sustainability. Hosted at the Tottenham Hotspur Stadium in London, Hackitt told summit delegates: “We now have a clear, systems-based approach to improving regulatory compliance and information sharing. Competence, accountability, and responsibility are now being placed at the heart of building processes. “This means changing the way we plan, design, and deliver buildings Plan to triple house building in the North
£1.5m The fine to be paid by Tarmac Aggregates for its negligence resulting in the death of a maintenance contractor
six years ago. Source: HSE
long-term certainty on rent and grant subsidy, and linking local plan- making to regional economic targets” – with the intended result of adding £3.9 billion of gross value to the UK economy, delivering 42,920 homes, and regenerating 80 communities, whilst providing work to around 59,000 people. Homes for the North Chair Steve Coffey said: “Our Plan provides the first ever comprehensively-mapped vision of regeneration opportunities across the North, and would deliver what the region, its people and economy need – more and better homes.”
A new plan proposes to remedy the housing crisis in the North of England by tripling the number of houses being built in the region. Plan for More and Better Homes , published by Homes for the North – an alliance of the region’s biggest housing associations – shows how a new Government could boost housing delivery across the country by building 2 million new homes by 2050 whilst upgrading 100,000 existing homes as part of a medium-term plan. Homes for the North outlined a “strategic approach to investing in local delivery partnerships, providing
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