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17 November 2023 / Nicola Brant
Issue: 8049 / Categories: Features , Property , Leasehold
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Potential issues for leaseholders under the Building Safety Act 2022

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Nicola Brant finds troublesome defects in the Act which was meant to improve building safety after Grenfell
  • Highlights uncertainties under the Building Safety Act 2022, which require urgent clarification.

In the words of the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), ‘[t]his Act makes ground-breaking reforms to give residents and homeowners more rights, powers, and protections—so homes across the country are safer. It delivers far-reaching protections for qualifying leaseholders from the costs associated with remediating historical building safety defects, and an ambitious toolkit of measures that will allow those responsible for building safety defects to be held to account’. This admirable aim fulfilled a promise made after the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017, which cost the lives of 72 people.

The Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022) came into effect last summer, and has already required some changes to deal with issues for the construction sector, but only now are some of the issues for leaseholders coming to light. This article looks

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