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Will the "Building Safety Act 2022" impact us self builders? Do I need to rush out and buy a warrant for my part-completed new build bungalow? https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2022/30/contents/enacted Section 142 requires a structural warranty, with penalties for non-compliance. Section 138 defines a new build home as "a building the construction of which began after the coming into force of this section" so I assume it won't apply to my build as it has already started construction. … but … this new legal requirement for a structural warranty might affect us in that all mortgage providers and conveyancing solicitors may routinely demand a warranty in practice, even more so than they do already. It may become the norm. Here is an article from Grand Designs magazine …
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Set within the Brexit narrative, the author of this article argues that the humble GCN (Great Crested Newt) is a good way of looking at UK Planning issues. I draw your attention to the article because it's not as Ya Boo Sucks as many about the GCN. The article is light on the planning context: it makes no attempt to square the circle - how do you build more houses and not put pressure on the local ecology (GCN or otherwise) ? My principal beef with the article is the reference to an ICUN Database entry and failing to draw attention to the following entry in the record on GCNs. The GCN is of least concern ' ... Listed as Least Concern in view of its wide distribution, tolerance of a degree of habitat modification, presumed large population, and because it is unlikely to be declining fast enough to qualify for listing in a more threatened category. Some subpopulations are threatened...' (Accessed 2st March 2018) The CGN is of '... least concern ... ' : I know that very well indeed. The damn (beautiful) things stomp across our living room carpet whenever it's warm enough - across our kitchen floor only to get growled at by our brave tomcat, and get squashed on the road outside our house every time there's heavy rain overnight. The GCN as political football.
