26 March 2024
The Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA) provides protections for qualifying leaseholders from the costs associated with remediating historical building safety defects. The government is continuing to monitor the impacts of the current protections and has been made aware of a perceived issue in the qualifying criteria for the protections, for people who own their principal home jointly, and additional properties jointly. However, the department does not have enough data on the number of leaseholders this issue is impacting. As part of the policy development, this call for evidence seeks to understand the scale of the issue, and to consider whether any changes could be proposed by the government. The department would therefore like to have evidence from both leaseholders and landlords on who may be affected if this policy is changed.
This call for evidence will run to Friday 5 April 2024.
You may respond by completing an online survey
Alternatively you can email your response to the questions in this call for evidence to jointownershipcfe@levellingup.gov.uk
When responding in writing, please make it clear which questions you are responding to.
Written responses should be sent to:
Leaseholder Protections Team
Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities
Fry Building, Third Floor
2 Marsham Street
London, SW1P
When you reply it would be very useful if you confirm whether you are replying as an individual or submitting an official response on behalf of an organisation and include:
- your name,
- your position (if applicable),
- the name of organisation (if applicable),
- an address (including post-code),
- an email address, and
- a contact telephone number
