Michael Gove. Screengrab: Parliament TV Housing secretary Michael Gove has set out proposals to make the development sector fund a £4bn package of work to fix unsafe cladding fitted to lower-rise buildings after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed safety risks. But a leaked letter from chief secretary to the […]Click here to view original web…

Michael Gove’s promise that many more leaseholders will not have to pay for repairs is heartening, but flaws in his plan must be addressed On Monday, Michael Gove stood up in parliament and made a promise that was long overdue: no person living in a building higher than 11 […] Click here to view original…

A cladding victim in Birmingham has said leaseholders are still “in limbo” following a new announcement from the Government on the “nightmare” building safety scandal. Eva Nazem Housing secretary Michael Gove MP has written to developers asking them to cover the costs of cladding bills for buildings between 11 […] Click here to view original…

A cladding victim in Birmingham has said leaseholders are still “in limbo” following a new announcement from the Government on the “nightmare” building safety scandal. Housing secretary Michael Gove MP has written to developers asking them to cover the costs of cladding bills for buildings between 11 and 18 […] Click here to view original…

In the latest steps taken by the government to deal with the issue of unsafe cladding, new measures have been put forward to hold firms to account. A spokesperson for the Department of Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities, said, “The government has today (Monday, January 10) reset its approach […] Click here to view original…

By Lucia Osborne-Crowley (January 11, 2022, 2:20 PM GMT) — The government has warned property developers that it will force them to foot a bill of up to £4 billion ($5. 4 billion) to get rid of unsafe cladding as it seeks to prevent another disaster like the Grenfell […] Click here to view original…

File photo showing the Hillview flats in the Gaer, Newport, in 2018. Picture: www.christinsleyphotography.co.uk CLADDING on three tower blocks in Newport which failed safety tests following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 has been replaced, and fire safety standards there now “exceed” legal requirements. Fire safety for high-rise buildings […] Click here to view original…

Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Michael Gove has warned developers that the government is “coming for” those who mis-sold dangerous products, such as cladding or insulation, and outlined various actions relating to the cladding crisis. In a speech in the House of Commons yesterday, Gove […] Click here to view original…

Hayley Tillotson [pictured] bought her “dream flat” in Leeds through an affordable housing scheme aged 27. A housebuyer who bought her first home at the age of 27 has revealed how the cladding scandal left her bankrupt within 12 months – and without a mortgage. Hayley Tillotson, 29, bought […] Click here to view original…

Nobody can dispute that the rhetoric was strong from Michael Gove, the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary, in his Commons statement yesterday on building safety. At one stage he sounded like Rambo: “We are coming for you.” At other times, the class war message was more in the […] Click here to view original…

©Burnstuff2003 The government has outlined a new plan to protect leaseholders, and make developers and companies pay to fix the cladding crisis Secretary of state for Levelling Up, Michael Gove has promised that no new leaseholder living in their own flat will have to pay to fix unsafe cladding […] Click here to view original…

Homebuilders in England have been told by the government that they must agree to fund the replacement of unsafe cladding on mid-rise blocks in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire . UK housing secretary Michael Gove wrote to the “residential developer industry” to request that developers agree to […] Click here to view original…