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I think its implied that private contractors might not be quite as impartial as civil servants - especially towards larger developers who might work with the same inspectors on different sites over a number of months / years, or that the basic requirement to make money on a job means that there are temptations to cut corners
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Didn't quite get this. So it used to be that inspections were done by civil servants but now you will have to hire independent surveyors? And in the privatisation process one also removed certain obligations to have the surveys done? The motivations of stingy landlords to avoid inspections is obvious, but where are the insurance companies in all of this?