Lisa Petty told NationalWorld she couldn’t “begin to explain the fear of living in a building with a fire risk, especially after Grenfell”. A flat owner is anxiously awaiting a cladding removal bill of up to £30,000 after a safety report concluded her home had a huge fire risk. […]Click here to view original web…

Britain’s homebuilders have six weeks to sign a UK government contract that will commit them to repair unsafe cladding on apartment blocks — or face banishment from the housing market. The pledge will commit firms to spend an estimated £2 billion ($2.5 billion) to fix tall buildings they developed […] Click here to view original…

Michael Gove has pledged to relieve leaseholders in England of the burden of paying for costly repairs, and instead shift the responsibility to landlords. The Levelling Up Secretary will announce a new six-week deadline today as part of his vow to “change the system”. ‘Unfair’ leasehold system to be […] Click here to view original…

The new contracts will force developers to pay for works (Alamy) Housing Secretary Michael Gove has announced tough new plans to hold developers responsible for funding repair works to buildings with fire safety issues, and warned those who fail to comply could be blacklisted from the market. Hundreds of […] Click here to view original…

Unsafe cladding being removed from high-rise blocks in Bootle, Merseyside, in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 Developers who covered tower blocks in unsafe cladding have paid back less than 3% of the cash lent out by the government to make buildings safe, sparking accusations they […] Click here to view original…

Almost half of Britons support scrapping leasehold homeownership, which the government is in the middle of attempting to reform, according to the latest poll from YouGov. The survey found that 28% of those asked strongly support abolishing this system where a householder owns a property for an agreed number […] Click here to view original…

Team of fire safety exports will continually patrol a residential building in Glasgow. ‘Waking watch’ introduced at Lancefield Quay in Glasgow. A “waking watch” patrol has been introduced at a block of flats in Glasgow after fire safety issues were identified. The measure will see a team of fire […] Click here to view original…

In the latest government cladding update, Housing secretary Michael Gove has announced a six-week deadline for developers to sign a government contract agreeing to fix life-critical fire safety defects in their towers or face a ban on developing. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has published the […] Click here to view original…

Housebuilder joins Barratt and Persimmon but others including Berkeley, Taylor Wimpey and Bellway still to commit Vistry has become the latest major UK housebuilder to indicate its intention to sign the government contract drawn up to underpin the £2.5bn cladding pledge to undertake fire safety repairs on historic buildings. […] Click here to view original…

Almost half of Britons support scrapping leasehold homeownership, which the government is in the middle of attempting to reform, according to the latest poll from YouGov. The survey found that 28% of those asked strongly support abolishing this system where a householder owns a property for an agreed number […] Click here to view original…

Labour or the Greens could secure a majority in the council chamber with a victory here, as voters prepare to head to the polls on Thursday (February 2). The seat’s been held by the Lib Dems since its creation in 2016, but a win for either the Labour or […] Click here to view original…

Developer Robertson Homes has said it is considering if it is “appropriate” for it to sign the government’s new post-Grenfell remediation contract as it has not built any tall blocks in the last 30 years. The Stirling-based firm was one of 49 firms to sign the government’s initial developers’ […] Click here to view original…