Written question WQ87625

The Developers’ Pact represents a public commitment that developers will address fire safety issues in buildings of 11 metres and over they have developed over the last 30 years.

The Developers’ Pact is underpinned by formal legal documentation that sets out our detailed expectations.

The document requires developers to address life critical fire safety issues in buildings of 11 metres and over in height they have developed since 1992. It also sets out the intention to monitor progress, reporting requirements, and signposts a dispute resolution process.

This has been drafted and shared with the Home Builders Federation.

Developers will be legally bound by the formal documentation underpinning the Pact once they have signed that documentation.

Legislation is therefore not required to make the contents of the legally binding documentation enforceable against such a developer.

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I am not aware of any contracts directly awarded within my portfolio to developers that have signed up to our Developers’ Pact.