It is now two months since the Building Safety Bill was published and presented to parliament by the now-former housing secretary. The bill has had its second reading in the House of Commons and is now at committee stage, where it is reviewed line by line before proposed amendments are reported and debated in the house. We are therefore likely to see further changes before it is enacted, probably in the spring of 2022.

The extent of these changes remains to be seen but, given the constant evolution of the bill over the past 12 months, including many of the definitions and associated processes, it would seem certain that there will be more changes.

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