Improvement Notices and Cladding in the UK: What You Need to Know
By EsqSocial Corporation 24/03/21
The Situation: To discharge their statutory responsibilities, and as a result of increasing pressure from central government, local authorities ("LAs") are turning to section 11 and 12 of the Housing Act 2004 ("HA 2004") as a means of enforcing against private-sector owners of properties with potential fire safety defects or combustible cladding. Improvement notices in particular can be a highly effective and expeditious means of ensuring compliance from the point of view of the LA and can...
By: Jones Day