Building industry must pay to remove dangerous cladding, says Gove
The Government will take “every step necessary” to ensure the building industry fixes the problem of dangerous cladding blighting thousands of leaseholders in medium rise blocks, Michael Gove has said. Four and half years after the Grenfell fire exposed the dangers of cladding, the Housing Secretary said that no […]Click here to view original web…
Michael Gove’s unsafe cladding plan – 9 unpleasant details hidden in the small print
Top Tory Michael Gove has torn up the government’s plan for dealing with cladding – and announced a new one. The Housing Secretary axed £50-a-month loans for people in “medium-rise” blocks to pay for fixing cladding. Instead, people in buildings 11-18 metres high will not pay a penny for […] Click here to view original…
BREAKING: Owners in ‘medium’ towers hit by cladding crisis will NOT pay ACM costs
Housebuilders are to foot the £4 billion cost of releasing the half a million leaseholder apartment owners in medium-size towers from the ‘nightmare’ of both huge remediation costs and being unable to sell their homes. Housing secretary Michael Gove has written to developers today to say that he is […] Click here to view original…
Building safety crisis: developers told to pay up to fix unsafe cladding
The government has unveiled plans to make developers pay for the removal of unsafe cladding from homes affected by the building safety crisis. Housing secretary Michael Gove today announced a suite of new measures for leaseholders trapped in unsellable homes, but some will still face significant bills in the […] Click here to view original…
Tories concede under cladding pressure but don’t go far enough
Link to this page: https://www.socialistparty.org.uk/issue/1162/33560 Flammable cladding can act as a chimney, spreading flames throughout a tower, photo Jim Linwood (CC) (Click to enlarge) Tory Housing Minister Michael Gove’s recent announcement that he will make the property developers pay for unsafe cladding is in part a response to the […] Click here to view original…
Owners of problem flats give cautious welcome to UK cladding move
LONDON : Owners of flats built with combustible cladding have welcomed a UK government move to make developers contribute more to the cost of its removal following the deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower fire but say much more is needed. “I would say it’s a step in the right direction, […] Click here to view original…
Building experts gear up to tackle medium rise buildings after Gove cladding commitment
Building experts will be turning their attention to medium-rise buildings after Michael Gove’s commitment to fix the problem Many more than the 50 applications for re-cladding support on 18m-plus buildings across Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex will be looking for help from the Building Safety Fund following a government announcement, […] Click here to view original…
Gove puts pressure on housing developers to help pay for cladding remediation costs
building safety Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove, is putting pressure on developers in the construction industry to pay to fix the cladding crises that “they caused”. Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove The Government currently estimates the cost […] Click here to view original…
Bexhill ‘fire risk’ cladding -changes are ‘huge step forward’, say residents
The Observer reported last year how people living in the Landmark building said they were ‘living in fear’ after surveyors recommended major repairs to the complex after cladding deemed to be a ‘fire risk’ was found. Residents have seen their insurance costs rise, as well as bills for new […] Click here to view original…
Leaseholders no longer have to pay £4bn to fix unsafe cladding
The government has asked the housing industry to work together to resolve unsafe cladding on mid-rise homes. Key takeaways Leaseholders living in mid-rise flats with unsafe cladding will no longer have to pay out to fix the problem Instead, developers and cladding companies will have to foot the bill […] Click here to view original…
Owners of problem flats give cautious welcome to UK cladding move
Grenfell Tower, site of the UK’s deadliest fire since World War II that killed 79 Photo: AFP Owners of flats built with combustible cladding have welcomed a UK government move to make developers contribute more to the cost of its removal following the deadly 2017 Grenfell Tower fire but […] Click here to view original…
Britain has ordered housebuilders to pay around US$5.4 billion to help remove dangerous cladding from buildings
Britain has ordered housebuilders to pay around US$5.4 billion to help remove dangerous cladding from buildings Government, developers and owners were at loggerheads over how to make properties safe after deadly 2017 London fire A construction worker inspects cladding at Royal Artillery Quays residential apartments in London. Photo: Bloomberg […] Click here to view original…