What the latest documents tell us about the government’s progress on building safety

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A flurry of progress reports, consultation documents, reviews and statements were put out by the government last week. Housing Today combs through the documents to unpack what has been achieved in responding to the Grenfell Inquiry’s recommendations and what is still to come

The publication of a consultation document on the establishment of a single construction regulator grabbed the headlines in the construction press this week.

It had been the headline recommendation of the Grenfell Tower phase two inquiry and the government had already, last month, laid a statutory instrument to transfer building safety functions from the Health and Safety Executive into a new arms-length

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