Safe, Warm and Compliant Social Housing: Insights from the Warm and Safe Homes Summit

Laura Campbell shares her takeaways from the Warm and Safe Homes Summit hosted by Inside Housing.

Laura Campbell, Senior Associate in our Construction team, attended the Warm and Safe Homes Summit hosted by Inside Housing, which brought together over 500 attendees from housing providers, local authorities and sector leaders. The agenda reflected continued sector priorities including safer and more energy-efficient homes while balancing building safety, decarbonisation and tenant wellbeing. As ever, practical realities of funding, capacity and an evolving regulatory landscape were key issues affecting successful delivery.

Discussions also returned to familiar enablers of successful programmes such as clear resident engagement and communication, good data and governance, and a coordinated approach that links retrofit, maintenance and compliance activity. The conversations reflected the greater focus on proactive compliance, transparency and tenant voice, backed by evidence and robust assurance in meeting the Regulator of Social Housing’s Consumer Standards. From a construction perspective, there is a real synergy with priorities being driven through the Building Safety Regulator too.

The key takeaway for construction and in considering our clients is the challenge of turning these expectations into deliverable construction programmes (whether planned or remedial works, complex building safety projects or retrofit at scale) with appropriate procurement and robust contract strategies in place.

Laura said:

“These are consistent themes in our day-to-day work, and our Construction team supports housing providers and public sector organisations with end-to-end support from advising on procurement strategies and contract negotiation, to complex multi-party disputes.”

To discuss this further, simply get in touch with Laura Campbell.

Laura Campbell is a Senior Associate at Sharpe Pritchard LLP.

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