Credit where credit is due. There is no doubt that Andy Roe has turned things around at the Building Safety Regulator.

Make no mistake, it was a byword in contracting for “shambles”. Well-intentioned but a shambles, nonetheless. Contractors were at their wits’ end with it all.

Basic stuff like not letting firms know whether their gateway 2 application was valid or not for months at a time put many in despair. For a while, loads of contractors were telling me they had no idea what had happened to the jobs that had gone in for gateway 2.