Closed call for evidence

Service charge transparency requirements: ongoing costs of the new building safety regime - consultation and call for evidence

• From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities
• Published: 2 February 2023

This was published under the 2022 to 2024 Sunak Conservative government

Applies to England

Summary

​This is a consultation and call for evidence on the proposed transparency requirements for the ongoing costs of the new building safety regime.​

This call for evidence ran from
2 February 2023 to 11:45pm on 31 March 2023

Call for evidence description

​​The Building Safety Act 2022 established new legal duties for landlords and building owners of higher-risk residential buildings to keep their building safe.

​There will be an ongoing cost associated with complying with some of these building safety duties, which can be passed to leaseholders through the service charge.

​​This consultation and call for evidence seeks views on:

• ​the proposed transparency requirements associated with the ongoing costs of the new building safety regime
• ​the administrative and operational changes needed to implement the new transparency requirements
• ​the cost of and time taken to adjust existing systems or to implement new systems to meet the transparency requirements
• ​the impact of different commencement timings and sequencing​

Documents

Service charge transparency requirements: ongoing costs of the new building safety regime - consultation and call for evidence

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Published 2 February 2023