We like to think we can do some good for the industry here at Building, maybe even run to its rescue on occasion, but rarely is our effect so immediate as it was last week. One of my trusty hacks made some enquiries when he discovered CITB was seeking to have a tiny drainage contractor wound up for not submitting the required CITB levy forms. It was the final chapter of a saga that had been running since 2008 with multiple demands for the forms from CITB and even a statutory notice that was handed to the firm's lone director in person. But within hours of a few phone calls from my hack, the parties had patched up their differences and the winding-up petition was dropped. I'm thinking about buying him a cape.
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