Those of your readers who managed to read e-Building on their sandy beach may have noticed the pretty fundamental consultation launched by Andrew Stunell, the Minister for Building Regulations (“What would you do with the Regs, 6 August, page 20)

Replies, he says, to communities department by the end of the month.

There is now, thanks to a piece by Andrew Gilligan in The Telegraph, a name for this sort of “it’s your own fault if you didn’t respond” government activity. It is a “nonsultation”. For the future, it looks as if the previous government’s agreement with our industry to allow time for changes to the rules to be considered is part of the “bonfire of regulation”.

Ian Macpherson

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