6/30/2025 9:25:01 AM Reflections from NFTMO 2025 – Building safety and management: communication breakdown (and other fire hazards) By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Elizabeth Massey If you attended our session at the NFTMO conference this year, you’ll know it quickly turned into something of a legal surgery - and we...
6/24/2025 2:00:03 PM Reviewing the Regulator: Is the Building Safety Regulator fit for purpose? By Lorna Kenyon-Pain The Building Safety Regulator was set up under the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA 2022). One of its key purposes is to regulate...
2/20/2025 12:31:56 PM High Court examines new parts of the Building Safety regime By Paul Slinger In a recent case (381 Southwark Park Road RTM Company Limited & Ors v Click St Andrews Ltd & Anr), the High Court has given valuable...
8/9/2024 9:31:03 AM Lessons to learn - Regulator of Social Housing's Annual Consumer Regulation Review By Helen Tucker On 17 July 2024, the Regulator of Social Housing issued its Annual Consumer Regulation Review for 2023-2024. This relates to the last...
6/21/2024 2:49:23 PM Seven years after the Grenfell tragedy - reaching their limit… How far do the leaseholder protections stretch? By Joanne Wright Paul Slinger The latest on remediation orders and remediation contribution orders The first contested remediation contribution order case (under...
8/18/2023 9:12:50 AM Higher-risk building registration - Don't forget the deadline! By Elizabeth Massey The regulatory team at Anthony Collins has been paying close attention to developments in building safety law, most notably under the...
4/6/2023 9:32:36 AM Building and fire safety reform – 6 April, more than just the start of the bank holiday weekend? By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Elizabeth Massey Our blog last month advised that the window for registering higher-risk buildings (“HRBs”) was due to open in April 2023, with the...
4/5/2023 11:16:28 AM Use of emollient creams in care settings – have you considered the fire risks? By Molly Quinney When fabric with dried-on emollient cream makes contact with a naked flame, testing has shown that the fabric burns much more quickly and...
3/16/2023 5:12:31 PM (Some) developers step up and bind themselves to the Government’s ‘fire safety contract’ By Paul Slinger 13 March 2023 marked the deadline for when the Government expected housebuilders and mixed-use developers to sign up to commitments...
3/15/2023 11:38:11 AM A warning from the Building Safety Regulator to be ready By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Elizabeth Massey The regulator’s Making Buildings Safer campaign aims to highlight the new legal duties that those who own, manage and/or otherwise...
1/23/2023 11:49:27 AM New year, new regulations; the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 are in force By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Today (23 January 2023) the Fire Safety (England) Regulations 2022 (the Regulations) come into force. The Regulations, enacting many of...
10/5/2022 10:37:04 AM Smoke and carbon monoxide alarm obligations in force from 1 October 2022 By Lorna Kenyon-Pain Yesterday I was presenting at a conference regarding the Building Safety Act 2022, and in listening to the speakers it struck me just how...