A scheme designed to effectively stop major developers from trading if they fail to undertake the fire safety repair work deemed necessary by the government has come into force after regulations were finally published yesterday.

The Responsible Actors Scheme has been designed by housing secretary Michael Gove to enforce his plan to get 50 major builders to sign up to a contract committing them to remediate any “life critical” defects in buildings going back 30 years, in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy.

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