Update: The Building Safety Pledge Contract

Developers are given six weeks to sign the Building Safety Pledge contract.

In response to the Grenfell Fire, the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities ("DLUHC") wrote to major residential property developers and, where applicable, the Home Builders Federation, on 31 March 2022, inviting parties to sign a pledge letter setting out that leaseholders should not have to pay for any costs associated with life-critical fire-safety remediation work arising from the design, construction or refurbishment of buildings of 11 metres and above. This pledge was intended to be formalised by a legally binding contract, the first draft of which was published in July 2022 – as referred to in our article published in July 2022.