4 INDUSTRY NEWS
FROM THE EDITOR
James Parker
The collapse of Northamptonshire approved building inspector PWC Building Control Services has had a major impact on thousands of ongoing housebuilding projects of different sizes. The LABC has written to approximately 14,000 of its creditors awaiting completion certifi cates, whose projects range in sie and value,” said Martin Taylor, LABC chief executive.
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his major m turnover fi rm’s demise is one of the fi rst signs that the new building safety regime brought in by the Building Safety Act has real teeth, and worrying consequences for lack of compliance. Short-term, the LABC says private clients and developers left in the lurch will now see their schemes passed over to local authority building inspectors, and have to pay once again for their services to get projects signed off in order to sell.
bservers reckon that because of other building control fi rms already having gone under after the Building Safety Regulator introduce its tougher compliance regime in April, and now this major fi rm disappearing, we are the start of something resembling a purge.
PWC is believed to have £10m of debts, following its licence to trade being fi nally revoked by the egulator in ugust. he initially rejected the fi rm’s application to join the safety register in pril, based on reported breaches of its code of conduct.
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Even if you follow good advice and keep all of your project evidence and data diligently, already snowed-under local authority teams aren’t going to be green-lighting anything soon. ou will be starting from scratch if you haven’t got the appropriate documentation, including weekly hi-res photo diaries of work done.
We may be at the end of the era of developers managing to build across different local authorities using their relationship with their choice of private building control fi rm to achieve the gains they previously managed. It may be that, for good reasons of creating much more rigour in the process to achieve safety above all, we will at some stage be back to the era of only working with local authorities.
n estimated , building projects are affected by PW’s collapse, a few more of these and the 1.5 million homes promised by Labour starts to look fanciful.
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Unfortunately, this is what a robust system looks like, there cannot be safety gains across the board without pain.
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aylor said understandably there will be much concern about what this situation means for these consumers” (possibly something of an understatement), and that developers affected need to speak to their local authority’s building control team, and provide them as much information as possible to help them determine whether the work completed so far complies with the relevant regulations.”
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