The social housing regulator was “constrained” in its
ability to investigate residents’ fire safety concerns by the direction of
travel imposed by government, its former chair has said. Julian Ashby, who
stepped down as chair of the Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) this year, said
“with hindsight” the regulator could have been “more aggressive” over health
and safety. But he said its actions were “constrained” by legislation which
limited its power to intervene in consumer affairs, after the government
scrapped its predecessor, the Tenant Services Authority (TSA), amid the
‘bonfire of the quangos’ in 2010. The HCA was only allowed to intervene in
‘consumer’ or tenant affairs when it was satisfied that the concerns passed the
‘serious detriment test’ of potential harm to residents. Read more on Inside
Housing.
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