46 INDUSTRY VIEWFINDER - BUILDING SAFETY BILL What do you believe main barriers to the adoption of the Building Safety Act will be?
PROBLEMATIC RESULTS AWARENESS
Though the sweeping changes that the Bill (now Act) will bring are seen by the vast majority of the industry who are aware of its existence to be a welcome move, our research has revealed that it is in awareness itself in which the Government has seemingly failed so far. With the Building Safety Act now set in law, just weeks after our survey was conducted, just 7 out of 10 (69%) respondents had even heard of the Bill, with 31% having never heard of it in our survey. This was only made worse by the fact that, of those who had heard of the measures, just 19% said they ‘entirely’ understood it, with 36% saying they understood it ‘well’, 39% ‘little,’ and 6% ‘not at all.’
BARRIERS
Unfortunately, a lack of understanding is not set to be the Government’s only problem in engaging the industry. When asked to list what they perceived to be the main barriers behind the adoption of the Bill – as is usually the case in our surveys – a lack of funding/cashflow issues emerged front and
ENGAGEMENT Fortunately, there were some silver linings revealed in our research.
Engagement, for example, was oddly not shown to be as low as the understanding or awareness of the Bill.
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centre, with almost half of our respondents (47%) listing it as a main barrier.
This was then followed by the potential for the Bill to slow the planning process (45%), a lack of information (40%) and industry engagement (36%) as above, and the potential for a more expensive/complex insurance process (33%). Of the barriers listed that were chosen by less than a third of our respondents, a slowed pace of construction in general was chosen by 29%, followed by the potential of additional taxes (27%), the remediation of cladding (25%), the increase in regulations for housebuilders to keep track of (25%), the ability of owners to seek compensation from residential developers (21%), and the discouragement to the construction of tall buildings (15%).
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