The Hackitt Review will not end contract practices which can lead to poor build quality, according to Assad Maqbool, partner at Trowers & Hamlins, who also sits on the Housing Forum.
“The report rightly asserts that the priorities and drivers set out in procurement processes and the structuring and terms of contracts can encourage poor behaviours that lead to poor outcomes,” he said.
But those poor behaviours could only be tackled with “a very prescriptive and authoritarian set of rules” absent from the report, Maqbool argued.
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