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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 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…

(Image: Mairead via Dreamstime.com) The government’s plan to fix all unsafe high-rises in government-funded schemes by the end of 2029 “lacks ambition”, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded. A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report said the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Remediation Acceleration Plan fails to address the […] Click here to view original…

The cladding crisis continues to exact an unacceptable toll on people in affected buildings. A report published by the Public Accounts Committee warns that, eight years on from Grenfell, the Government still does not know how many buildings have dangerous cladding, how much it will cost to address, or […] Click here to view original…

Image: Iordanis / Shutterstock.com. The Government ‘appears complacent’ about the fact that there is insufficient capacity and skills across local government to address the dangerous cladding crisis, MPs have warned. In a report published today , the Public Accounts Commission (PAC) says the Government still does not know how […] Click here to view original…

The government is not taking the potential impact of its cladding remediation plans on housebuilding targets seriously enough, according to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Image: Yannick Pulver/Unsplash Sharelines Impact of remediation costs for social landlords on housebuilding “not being taken seriously enough”, @CommonsPAC warns #UKhousing The inquiry report […] Click here to view original…

Re-cladding work in progress on a block of flats in Stratford, London (not on the regulator’s watchlist) Setting out its concerns in a report today (21 March), the committee said it feared the government would not meet its 2029 target to solve dangerous cladding on buildings above 18m. The […] Click here to view original…

Too many people are still feeling trapped in unsafe homes and being exploited by exorbitant insurance MPs warn Caption: Memorial to victims of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 which killed 72 people. (Henry Nicholls/AFP) share Share bookmark Save Eight years on from the Grenfell disaster, MPs warned the […] Click here to view original…

Southampton is the most affected by the cladding in Hampshire (Image: NQ) A report has found the cladding crisis could cost up to £22.4 billion as it is revealed part of Southampton is the worst affected area in Hampshire. The figure was revealed in a report by the House […] Click here to view original…