Emily Hunt

May 24, 2024 | lexology.com | Michael Salau |Emily Hunt |eMily Hunt

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has won a landmark legal challenge against the freeholder, Grey GR, by obtaining its first Remediation Order under the Building Safety Act 2022. A Remediation Order (“RO”) requires a freeholder to remedy specific relevant defects in a specified time on a building.

May 17, 2023 | lexology.com | Michael Salau |Emily Hunt |eMily Hunt

Prior to the Building Safety Act 2022, it was commonplace for landlords of multi-occupied residential buildings to be responsible for the building’s upkeep and maintenance, and to pass these costs on to the long leaseholders via the service charge. The landlord generally had the power to determine whether a building should be remediated, when this remediation should happen and the extent (and costs) of works required.