Submission Statement: The Building Safety Levy Bill (Scotland) has been designed to raise about £30m a year to help fund work to fix buildings with unsafe cladding in the wake of the Grenfell disaster. The levy – which is yet to be set – is to be charged on the construction of certain new residential properties from April 2028, a year later than originally planned.
fantasmadecallao on
Thank GOD! Greedy developers will now make less profit. This will have no second-order consequences.
UtopianScot on
Here’s a serious question – who should wear the cost of complete market failure here? Companies elsewhere in the UK were fudging safety tests to install building cladding that was highly dangerous. Who should pay for remedial works?
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Submission Statement: The Building Safety Levy Bill (Scotland) has been designed to raise about £30m a year to help fund work to fix buildings with unsafe cladding in the wake of the Grenfell disaster. The levy – which is yet to be set – is to be charged on the construction of certain new residential properties from April 2028, a year later than originally planned.
Thank GOD! Greedy developers will now make less profit. This will have no second-order consequences.
Here’s a serious question – who should wear the cost of complete market failure here? Companies elsewhere in the UK were fudging safety tests to install building cladding that was highly dangerous. Who should pay for remedial works?