It’s hard to think of a thornier issue in construction currently than the Gateway 2 process. Since its initial implementation in October 2023, the regulatory hard stop before site work begins has become a major obstacle to delivery, with delays as long as a year being cited for a process which is meant to take 12 weeks.

Get a group of built environment professionals in a room and it will not be long before the topic bubbles to the surface.

As it happens, this is exactly what both Houses of Parliament did on Tuesday. The Commons’ Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee held the first hearing of its inquiry into the Building Safety Regulator (BSR), while in the House of Lords the Industry and Regulators Committee continued its own inquiry into the regulator.