London's affordable home building failures 'caused by Michael Gove and safety regulator' says City Hall

London's affordable home building failures 'caused by Michael Gove and safety regulator' says City Hall

Tom Copley said City Hall is still "very confident" it'll hit its targets

Deputy Mayor slams Building Safety Regulator and Ex-Housing Secretary for London’s housebuilding shortcomings

London’s failure to build even a third of the affordable homes it is meant to have started by now is down to the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) and former Housing Secretary Michael Gove, the city’s Deputy Mayor for Housing has claimed. Tom Copley said the way the BSR – which regulates the construction of higher-risk buildings – was set up has led to “unacceptable” delays in building, partly due to its capacity and partly because of its interpre…

Deputy mayor slams government's Building Safety Regulator

Tom Copley blames the way the regulator was set up under the previous Tory government has led to “unacceptable delays” to housebuilding, reports Kumail Jaffer, Local Democracy Reporter Tom Copley (inset) told London Assembly members housebuilding was too slow London’s failure to build even a third of the affordable homes it is meant to is down to the Building Safety Regulator (BSR) and former housing secretary Michael Gove, according to the capi…