Despite being announced and published nearly four months ago, the ‘developer pledge’ -under which housebuilders have agreed to fund life-critical fire safety works on buildings going back 30 years - has still yet to provide the answers the government were hoping for. Indeed it has left many in the property industry with even more questions .

This has been compounded by the publication of the long form agreement – the legal contract for developers to sign relating to the pledge – which was published on 13 July.