REGULATION

Three deadlines in one autumn, and each one turns on a different date

A scheme can be caught by one and escape the other two. Getting this wrong is not a compliance problem, it is a land value problem, because each of the three has a price.

Mark Stevens FRICS, Director

Sep 252 min read

The Building Safety Levy starts on 1 October. An appraisal that does not carry it is overstating land value

This is not a planning risk to keep an eye on. It is a statutory cost, fixed by the date of your Building Control application, which on a good many schemes is a decision that has to be taken within the next fortnight.

Mark Stevens FRICS, Director

Sep 164 min read

Second staircases become mandatory on 30 September. The cost is not the staircase

It is the net to gross. A second core takes saleable area out of every floor of the building, and on a scheme already consented that loss has nowhere to go.

Mark Stevens FRICS, Director

Sep 73 min read

Gateway 2 is twice as fast as it was, and still 22 weeks. That is a cost, not a delay

The regulator has halved its median decision time on new build applications. It is a genuine improvement, and it still puts 5 months between a finished design and a spade in the ground.

Mark Stevens FRICS, Director

Aug 243 min read

REGULATION

Three deadlines in one autumn, and each one turns on a different date

The Building Safety Levy starts on 1 October. An appraisal that does not carry it is overstating land value

Second staircases become mandatory on 30 September. The cost is not the staircase

Gateway 2 is twice as fast as it was, and still 22 weeks. That is a cost, not a delay

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