Crest and Taylor Wimpey reveal hefty bills for cladding works after new pledge
Cladding work Housebuilders Crest Nicholson and Taylor Wimpey have revealed further hefty bills after vowing to carry out more fire safety works on tall buildings in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The firms are among those to sign up to the Government’s new Building Safety Pledge, which […]Click here to view original web…
ACT government loan scheme to remove combustible cladding too late for some apartment owners
Neil Le Quesne says removing the combustible cladding will cost unit owners about $2.5 million in total.(ABC News: Greg Nelson) Owners of an apartment building in Canberra’s north say they have been forced to fork out between $50,000 to $80,000 each to remove dangerous combustible cladding from their building […] Click here to view original…
Housebuilders forced to spend millions more to fix cladding as they sign up to new Government guidelines
Two housebuilders yesterday set aside more money to fix dangerous cladding by signing up to government guidelines. Taylor Wimpey expects to spend another £80million on work to replace cladding. This means that in total it expects to spend £265million. And Crest Nicholson said it was putting aside up to […] Click here to view original…
Crest and Taylor Wimpey reveal hefty bills for cladding works after new pledge
Housebuilders Crest Nicholson and Taylor Wimpey have revealed further hefty bills after vowing to carry out more fire safety works on tall buildings in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The firms are among those to sign up to the Government’s new Building Safety Pledge, which commits developers […] Click here to view original…
After Grenfell: ACM cladding investigation
In the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire last year, a number of local authorities sent samples of aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding taken from council-owned buildings to a government testing lab to ensure the material did not present a fire risk. Click on the map to see […] Click here to view original…
Crest and Taylor Wimpey reveal hefty bills for cladding works after new pledge
Housebuilders had until April 5 to sign the Building Safety Pledge guidelines (Aaron Chown/PA) Housebuilders Crest Nicholson and Taylor Wimpey have revealed further hefty bills after vowing to carry out more fire safety works on tall buildings in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The firms are among […] Click here to view original…
Crest and Taylor Wimpey reveal hefty bills for cladding works after new pledge
Housebuilders had until April 5 to sign the Building Safety Pledge guidelines (Aaron Chown/PA) (PA Wire) Housebuilders Crest Nicholson and Taylor Wimpey have revealed further hefty bills after vowing to carry out more fire safety works on tall buildings in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The firms […] Click here to view original…
Major British homebuilders sign pledge on fire safety measures
Article content Four major British housebuilders have signed a government-backed safety pledge to remove flammable roof coverings from buildings which came into focus after the deadly Grenfell Tower fire in London. The country’s second-largest and third-largest homebuilders, Persimmon and Taylor Wimpey, said on Tuesday they had signed the “Developer […] Click here to view original…
Developers edge towards cladding deal with UK government
UK developers and housing secretary Michael Gove are nearing a deal that could resolve a large part of the building safety crisis highlighted by the 2017 fire at London’s Grenfell Tower that killed 72 people. Housebuilders and the government have been locked in talks since the start of the […] Click here to view original…
Crest Nicholson and Persimmon agree to sign Building Safety Pledge to help fund the removal of unsafe cladding
Two of Britain’s largest housebuilders have signed up to the Building Safety Pledge to help rectify fire safety problems across medium-rise buildings. Persimmon and Crest Nicholson have agreed to finance the removal of dangerous cladding, and the remediation of buildings they built in the last three decades of between […] Click here to view original…
Taylor Wimpey, Berkeley sign UK cladding pledge
(Sharecast News) – Housebuilders Taylor Wimpey and Berkeley said on Tuesday that they had signed the UK government’s pledge to make properties safe following the Grenfell Tower fire. Earlier, Persimmon also said it had signed the pledge, and stuck to its £75m estimate for the cost of carrying out […] Click here to view original…
Persimmon signs UK cladding pledge, reiterates cost estimate
Company photo / Persimmon The housebuilder said it had agreed to remove dangerous cladding and carry out other fire safety issues in line with the government’s requests. Levelling up minister Michael Gove widened the list of buildings requiring work to cover fire safety problems at structures over 11 metres […] Click here to view original…