Cladding-hit flat owners say developers will delay paying for works
Cladding-hit flat owners have responded to the Government’s latest announcement about the funding of dangerous buildings. The Government announced yesterday that it has reached an agreement with the industry that will see it contribute £5billion to address the building safety scandal. It said that developers will commit a minimum […]Click here to view original web…
‘Too many unknowns’ to pay up for cladding remediation, products group tells Gove
Industry body queries firms’ ‘connectivity’ to at-risk buildings in wake of housing secretary’s anger at sector’s response to cladding pledge The Construction Products Association (CPA) has hit back at Michael Gove who yesterday accused materials manufacturers of using the scale of the cladding crisis as an “excuse to do […] Click here to view original…
Slough Grenfell style cladding investigation costs have reached almost £20m
Nova House in Slough has major issues with its fire cladding Ongoing work to address major safety concerns at a block of flats have caused costs to almost double. The costs to remove Grenfell-style cladding and install safety measures now stand at £19.6m. The original costing for the work […] Click here to view original…
Small-scale landlords to benefit from new cladding scandal deal
The government says major house builders have agreed to spend £2 billion on fixing the dangerous cladding on their own buildings, in addition to contributing towards a levy which will see an additional £3 billion spent on the problem. The issue is of significance to landlords because the government […] Click here to view original…
NSW Auditor General slams slow removal of dangerous cladding
In 2017, a massive inferno destroyed London’s Grenfell Tower. The blaze spread through combustible cladding, killing 72 people. Nearly five years after the Grenfell Towers catastrophe in the UK, hundreds of apartment buildings across Sydney still have potentially deadly combustible cladding exteriors, an alarming new NSW Audit Office report […] Click here to view original…
Cladding scandal: Homebuilders pledge to pay £5bn towards fire safety costs, says government
The move comes more than four years after the Grenfell Tower fire. Pic: AP Developers have pledged to pay a combined £5bn to fix buildings with dangerous cladding and other fire safety issues, according to the housing secretary. Thirty-five of the UK’s biggest housebuilders have signed an agreement to […] Click here to view original…
Gove sets out new £3bn tax to fund UK cladding repairs
Tax on building industry would apply over 10 years The cladding crisis exposed by the 2017 Grenfell tower fire in London. Photograph: David Mirzoeff/PA Wire The UK government is set to raise £3 billion (€3.6 billion) from a new tax on the building industry over 10 years designed to […] Click here to view original…
MARKET REPORT: Housebuilders slide after being forced to commit to paying over £2bn to strip dangerous cladding from buildings
Britain’s major housebuilders came under pressure after the industry committed over £2billion to remove dangerous cladding from buildings. The commitments are a victory for Housing Secretary Michael Gove, whose aggressive approach to the cladding crisis has won him few friends in the sector. Shares in FTSE 100 builder Taylor […] Click here to view original…
MARKET REPORT: Housebuilders slide after cladding victory for Gove
Britain’s major housebuilders came under pressure after the industry committed over £2billion to remove dangerous cladding from buildings. The commitments are a victory for Housing Secretary Michael Gove, whose aggressive approach to the cladding crisis has won him few friends in the sector. Shares in FTSE 100 builder Taylor […] Click here to view original…
Government warns housebuilders not to miss cladding deadline
Housebuilders who do not sign up to a voluntary pledge to help fix unsafe cladding on tall buildings could be banned from new construction, the Government has warned. Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary Michael Gove warned those who have not signed up to the multibillion-pound plan that time […] Click here to view original…
UK government warns housebuilders not to miss cladding deadline
(Alliance News) – Housebuilders who do not sign up to a voluntary pledge to help fix unsafe cladding on tall buildings could be banned from new construction, the UK government has warned. Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary Michael Gove warned those who have not signed up to the […] Click here to view original…
Cladding scandal: Homebuilders pledge to pay £5bn towards fire safety costs, says government
The move comes more than four years after the Grenfell Tower fire. Pic: AP Developers have pledged to pay a combined £5bn to fix buildings with dangerous cladding and other fire safety issues, according to the housing secretary. Thirty-five of the UK’s biggest housebuilders have signed an agreement to […] Click here to view original…