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Building safety: data collection on external wall systems: letter to housing associations
Publication Year
2019
Document Status
Current
Abstract
Introduces a data collection exercise as part of the Building Safety Programme established in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire of June 2017. This letter to housing association chief executives asks for the identification of external wall materials and insulation on all high-rise residential buildings 18 metres and over they manage. Explains the background to this exercise and how the data will be collected and used.
Document History
Published: 18/07/2019. Letter sent to Housing Association Chief Executives. Issued as guidance relating to non-aluminium composite material cladding for the Building Safety Programme.
Publisher Information
Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government
The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government is a UK Government ministerial department with responsibility for several policy areas including building regulation, community integration, economic development in coastal and seaside areas, energy efficiency in buildings, high streets and town centres, housing, local enterprise partnerships (LEPs) and Enterprise Zones, localism, planning reform and the planning system. They were previously known as the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Department for Communities and Local Government, the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister, and the Department for Transport and Local Government.
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MHCLG
UK
Website: https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/ministry-of-housing-communities-and-local-government
