The government and the Building Safety Regulator have warned that charges associated with building safety case reports ‘must be reasonable’.

In a joint letter to building managers, the housing minister, Lee Rowley and Phillip White, the director of building safety at the Health and Safety Executive, said they have been made aware of ‘unacceptably high’ charges for services related to producing safety case reports in recent months.

Rowley and White noted that some are implying that new assessments need to be commissioned for every aspect of building safety, like fire engineering and building surveys, which can then lead to unreasonable management fees.