By Brian Wheeler Political reporter Michael Gove has named 11 firms who have so far refused to sign a contract to repair homes with safety risks exposed by the Grenfell Tower fire. He said 39 firms had signed the contract, which would see them spending £2bn to pay for […]Click here to view original web…

Michael Gove, UK levelling up secretary, departs Downing Street in London, UK, on Wednesday, Nov. 23, 2022. UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak suffered a blow to his authority as he struggled to quell Conservative rebellions on multiple policy fronts, and his downcast Members of Parliament threatened an exodus from […] Click here to view original…

The Grenfell Tower fire of 2017 exposed the use of unsafe cladding Michael Gove is preparing to ban three of the UK’s most prominent developers from building projects after they refused to sign a legally binding pledge to fix unsafe cladding. Gove told 11 housing developers that the government […] Click here to view original…

(Bloomberg) — Eleven property developers are yet to sign a UK government contract to repair unsafe cladding on apartment blocks, potentially barring them from building in future, according to Michael Gove, the secretary of state for housing. Most Read from Bloomberg ‘Old-School’ Signature Bank Collapsed After Its Big Crypto […] Click here to view original…

By Brian Wheeler Political reporter Michael Gove has named 11 firms who have so far refused to sign a contract to repair homes with safety risks exposed by the Grenfell Tower fire. He said 39 firms had signed the contract, which would see them spending £2bn to pay for […] Click here to view original…

The Grenfell Tower fire of 2017 exposed the use of unsafe cladding Michael Gove is preparing to ban three of the UK’s most prominent developers from building projects after they refused to sign a legally binding pledge to fix unsafe cladding. Gove told 11 housing developers that the government […] Click here to view original…

By Brian Wheeler Political reporter Michael Gove has named 11 firms who have so far refused to sign a contract to repair homes with safety risks exposed by the Grenfell Tower fire. He said 39 firms had signed the contract, which would see them spending £2bn to pay for […] Click here to view original…

Communities Secretary Michael Gove said developers who had not signed up would be out of the housebuilding business until they change course (UK Parliament/Jessica Taylor/PA) The Communities Secretary called out the housebuilding companies after giving them until March 13 to sign up to the agreement aimed at addressing cladding […] Click here to view original…

Derbyshire housebuilder Avant Homes is one of eleven firms that could ostensibly be shut down by the Government for failing to agree to cladding removal measures, the Levelling Up Secretary Michael Gove has said. Thirty-nine UK companies – including fellow East Midlands housebuilder Barratt Homes – have signed the […] Click here to view original…

Persimmon, Taylor Wimpey, Crest Nicholson, Bellway and Redrow all said they had put pen to paper on the so-called ‘developed remediation contract’. Fire Safety Fire Engineering FD&A Evacuation Fire and Rescue Equipment Fire Risk Assessment Five of the UK’s big housebuilders have signed new deals with the Government designed […] Click here to view original…

(Bloomberg) — Eleven property developers are yet to sign a UK government contract to repair unsafe cladding on apartment blocks, potentially barring them from building in future, according to Michael Gove, the secretary of state for housing. Most Read from Bloomberg Credit Suisse Finds ‘Material’ Control Lapses After SEC […] Click here to view original…

Michael Gove, the secretary of state for housing. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg Eleven property developers are yet to sign a UK government contract to repair unsafe cladding on apartment blocks, potentially barring them from building in future, according to Michael Gove, the secretary of state for housing. While 39 firms […] Click here to view original…