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Image of a high rise building The government is unlikely to hit its target of resolving the cladding crisis by 2029 with progress ‘painfully slow’ and many barriers still to address, including identifying all buildings affected, which could be as many as 12,000 in total. Work is yet to […] Click here to view original…

The government is at risk of not delivering on its promise of remediating cladding on all buildings over 18 metres by 2029, The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has warned. As it stands up to 7,000 unsafe buildings are yet to be identified, and government has yet to […] Click here to view original…

The legacy of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 is still with us TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES To be immobilised in a disaster not of your own making, and whose remedy lies beyond your control, is a particular form of hell. Yet this is the experience of up to three […] Click here to view original…

The government could potentially fail in its plan to remediate cladding on all buildings by 2029, MPs have warned. A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the target to complete works on all buildings 12 years after the Grenfell fire partly relied on new legislation, and said […] Click here to view original…

The UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has hit out at a series of failed measures to address the cladding crisis in England with thousands of unsafe buildings still yet to be identified eight years on from Grenfell and a serious under-estimation of the impact its policies are having […] Click here to view original…

Eight years on from Grenfell, the government still does not know how many buildings have dangerous cladding, how much it will cost to remediate these buildings or how long it will take, reveals a damning report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). In the report, which was published today […] Click here to view original…

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17 hours With the cladding crisis continuing to escalate eight years after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed safety flaws, MPs have called for product manufacturers to be forced to contribute to the rising costs. The Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 claimed 72 lives and exposed flaws in the nation’s […] Click here to view original…

The government is unsure how many buildings have flammable cladding Eight years after the Grenfell Tower fire, the government still does not know how many buildings have dangerous cladding, how much it will cost to fix or how long it will take, MPs have warned. Angela Rayner’s plan to […] Click here to view original…

A general view of Grenfell Tower, in west London, February 9, 2025 × You can read 5 more articles this month Please help support the Morning Star by subscribing here MINISTERS were told to get their “heads out of the sand” today as MPs slammed their plans to fix […] Click here to view original…