Joshua lasted
Political journalist
Media in Pennsylvania
The ministers delayed a tax to finance the abolition of the dangerous coating of the houses after the promoters warned that it could hinder the government’s construction plans.
The Ministry of Housing said on Monday that the building security tax would be presented in the fall of 2026, rather than this year.
New house tax should increase 3.4 billion pounds to be spent to build security, including efforts to eliminate dangerous coating.
The delay comes after the developers said that the tax could increase construction costs and bring the government to miss its objective of building 1.5 million houses by 2030.
The Minister of Housing, Matthew Pennycook, told LBC that the government was still attached to the tax and insisted that the delay would not slow down the rate of improving the safety of buildings.
“The previous government has left us an unpleasant heritage in this regard,” said Pennycook.
“We have to increase the pace of the work.
Neil Jefferson, director general of the Federation of Builders Home, praised the delay as “the recognition of the government that these additional costs will inevitably limit the supply of housing”.
But he suggested that the “very unfair” tax on the promoters of the accommodation should be completely deleted.
He said: “As proposed, he will add thousands of pounds to the cost of new houses, threatening the viability of sites through the country’s expanses at a time when industry strives to reverse the drop in house construction numbers that we have seen in recent years.”
The tax was announced for the first time in 2021 by the then conservative government.
Part of the money raised from the tax will go to the removal of the dangerous coating of buildings, after the deadly fire at the Grenfell tower.
The ministers set aside 5.1 billion pounds sterling to resolve the coating crisis, awaiting developers, building owners and social housing suppliers to pay the rest.
Thousands of houses were practiced, but in December of last year, the work had not yet started on a quarter of the 1,323 high buildings requiring attention.
Up to 12,000 buildings and three million people may be affected.
The long work identification process must be done and which should pay it has left many residents living in fear of fires or with concerns for expensive repair bills.
In its manifesto of the general elections, the workforce is committed to “taking decisive measures to improve the safety of buildings” and to “put a renewed accent on the insurance of managers of the crisis of the safety of buildings to do them well”.
Last year, Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the government planned to present the building security tax in September this year.
But in a letter to Rayner, dozens of developers said that “industry’s ability to invest in the increase in the supply of new houses to reach the objective of 1.5 million government is threatened by the taxation of new taxes.”
Home manufacturers say they are already paying 6.5 billion pounds to improve buildings safety thanks to corporate tax and that manufacturers of dangerous coatings should bear more costs.
The federation of house manufacturers estimates that the tax could add £ 1,580 at the cost of building a house and causes a loss of around 70,000 affordable dwellings over 10 years.
A spokesperson for the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Authorities said: “This government is determined to make British houses more safe by charging their fair share to repair dangerous buildings thanks to the building security tax.
“We have extended the calendar to give developers more time to take into account sampling costs in their plans while continuing to support them to build safe houses, and at the same time, we continue to work quickly to repair buildings with a dangerous coating thanks to our sanitation plan.”
