Despite the fire risk of more than 500 buildings comprising flammable cladding, a NSW Government task force has deemed the replacement of the cladding as low priority. A review of the reforms undertaken by NSW Auditor-General Margaret Crawford has found that the rate of buildings being noted by owners […]Click here to view original web…

Sam Williams is still unable to sell his east London flat Sam Williams, 31, and his wife, Harriet, 32, thought buying into the 2012 Olympic legacy was a safe bet. Yet eight years after they bought their two-bedroom flat in East Village, the former athletes’ village in east London, […] Click here to view original…

Workers remove panels of external cladding from the facade of Braithwaite House in London Ministers will warn would-be home-owners not to buy from one of Britain’s biggest developers unless it commits within weeks to fix dangerous cladding. Michael Gove, the levelling-up and housing secretary, is to tell Galliard Homes […] Click here to view original…

MICHAEL GOVE is ready to serve a blacklisting order on a major construction company for failing to adhere to cladding rules. MICHAEL GOVE is ready to serve a blacklisting order on a major construction company for failing to adhere to cladding rules. The leveling-up and housing minister is expected […] Click here to view original…

Developers that are refusing to contribute to the fund set up to fix dangerous cladding will be warned this week they could be blocked from selling new homes. The levelling up secretary, Michael Gove , will explicitly threaten retaliation, citing powers in the building safety bill that would stop […] Click here to view original…

MICHAEL GOVE is preparing to issue a blacklisting order ultimatum to a leading construction company over its refusal to comply with cladding requirements. Coventry: Aftermath of fire at high rise apartment building The levelling-up and housing secretary is due to inform Galliard Homes it risks punitive measures over its […] Click here to view original…

Health Secretary Humza Yousaf Humza Yousaf has been challenged to guarantee the new Sick Kids in Edinburgh is safe after claims that cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower has been installed at the hospital. Lib Dem leader Alex Cole-Hamilton has written to the health secretary to ask […] Click here to view original…

Sam Williams is still unable to sell his east London flat Sam Williams, 31, and his wife, Harriet, 32, thought buying into the 2012 Olympic legacy was a safe bet. Yet eight years after they bought their two-bedroom flat in East Village, the former athletes’ village in east London, […] Click here to view original…

A general view of apartments under construction near Wandsworth Bridge in London, Britain, January 10, 2022. REUTERS/Kevin Coombs April 13 (Reuters) – The UK government said on Wednesday it had agreed to a 5 billion pound ($6.50 billion) deal with housebuilders to eradicate flammable cladding on buildings over 11 […] Click here to view original…

Protesters in September demanding help over repair bills for their properties encased in potentially lethal cladding Pay up, or we will force you to. That was the warning from Housing Secretary Michael Gove to developers back in January, when he said the construction industry had a moral duty and […] Click here to view original…

The Construction Products Association (CPA) has said there are too many “unknowns” to be able to sign up to the government’s £5bn levy to pay for the historical building defects that came to light in the wake of the Grenfell Tower blaze. In its response to housing and communities […] Click here to view original…

Britain has had no fewer than four secretaries of state for housing since June 2017 when a devastating fire, fuelled by flammable cladding, ripped through Grenfell Tower in west London, said Emma Haslett in the New Statesman. In February the latest incumbent, Michael Gove, effectively gave builders an ultimatum: […] Click here to view original…