The Guardian: "Regulations including fire safety and wheelchair access could be torn up in an attempt to cut costs for the construction industry"

Link to The Guardian

"Ministers have ordered a wide-ranging review covering all aspects of building regulations, also including standards on energy efficiency.

"The review, which controversially includes the option of giving the building industry more scope for self-regulation, is the latest in a series of government initiatives intended to stimulate activity in the economy and drive job creation through investment in homebuilding.

"... Despite encouraging figures this week showing that the UK economy came out of recession at the end of the summer, the construction sector is still in the doldrums, contracting by 2.5% in the third quarter of the year."
 

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"Architects urge national scheme to build more houses
with better space and privacy, that people 
might actually want to live in"