Building safety levy pushed back a year
Posted: Wednesday, March 26th, 2025
The building safety levy is being introduced in England to raise an estimated £3 billion over 10 years to help fund the remediation of buildings with non-compliant cladding and fire safety systems, The Construction Index reported. As part of its Remediation Acceleration Plan, published in December 2024, the government announced its intention to launch the levy in autumn 2025. It has now been decided that the levy will come into effect in autumn 2026, with the levy regulations to be laid in Parliament later this year. It said that this would give local authorities, the Building Safety Regulator and registered building control approvers more time to prepare for the levy and developers more time to factor levy costs into their financial planning. It has also published the complete list of levy rates for each English local authority, with rates for building on previously undeveloped land approximately twice those for previously developed land. The building safety levy liability for a building control application will vary from £6.35 per square metre for previously developed land in County Durham to £98.01 per square metre for non-previously developed land in Westminster. British Property Federation policy director Ian Fletcher welcomed the postponement of the levy’s introduction. He said: “Given the delivery challenges currently being faced by the housing sector, especially concerning viability and start-on-sites, it is welcome news that the government is delaying the introduction of the building safety levy until the autumn of next year.”
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