Homes England boss calls on government to fix ‘unacceptably slow’ gateway 2 approvals

By Tom Lowe2025-05-22T00:01:00

Three quarters of high rise housing schemes still being refused for pre-construction approval

The chief executive of Homes England has called on the government to fix delays at the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) as he described gateway 2 approvals as “unacceptably slow”.

Eamonn Boylan told Building at the UKREiiF conference that widespread hold ups on high rise housing schemes caused partly by a lack of resources at the regulator was “something that the government needs to resolve”.

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