Dame Judith Hackitt appointed adviser for new Building Safety Regulator

The Regulator will have the power to apply criminal sanctions to those flouting the new rules

Dame Judith Hackitt is to provide independent advice to the government for its Building Safety Regulator.

The Regulator is designed to ensure that a new regime for higher-risk buildings is robustly enforced.

The proposal for a Regulator was published in the government’s Building a Safer Future consultation, which was published in June 2019.

This was based on recommendations made by Hackitt in the Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety published a year earlier.   

The government’s proposed new legislation will impose more responsibility on designing, constructing and operating high-rise buildings.

The Communities Secretary, Robert Jenrick MP said: ‘I am grateful that Dame Judith has agreed to advise my department on the new Building Safety Regulator.

‘Her expertise will be essential to forming a strong Regulator with teeth to ensure all residents are safe, and feel safe, in their homes both now and in the future.’