Think this is what they call moving the goalposts.
Gov has repeatedly said the Building Safety Bill would be the 'correct legislative approach' to prevent l'holders from having to pay remediation costs.
Now the bill is out...that is no longer the case🤔
insidehousing.co.uk/news/minister-…
Gov has repeatedly said the Building Safety Bill would be the 'correct legislative approach' to prevent l'holders from having to pay remediation costs.
Now the bill is out...that is no longer the case🤔
insidehousing.co.uk/news/minister-…
Here is the switcheroo in all of its glory.
18 March: Lord Greenhalgh writes to peers ahead of crunch vote on fire safety bill, calling on them not to support the amendment because.
18 March: Lord Greenhalgh writes to peers ahead of crunch vote on fire safety bill, calling on them not to support the amendment because.
This followed similar comments from policing minister Kit Malthouse on the 23 February. While representing the government in a Fire Safety Bill debate, he said👇
On Monday, the Building Safety Bill was published with little in it to protect leaseholders facing ruinous costs to fix historic fire safety defects despite previous gov promises, as summed up here👇
Now to come full circle, Lord Greenhalgh indicates that everything that the gov said when trying to get the Fire Safety Bill through parliament, seemingly no longer applies anymore, now that the Building Safety Bill has actually been published. Here are his comments in full👇
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