Nearly five years after the Grenfell Tower fire, 60% of buildings in England with the same type of cladding have have been made safe, new figures show. The flammable cladding panels have been blamed for the rapid spread of the 2017 London fire, which led to 72 deaths. In […]Click here to view original web…

More pressure is being put on the government to rethink its decision to exclude buy-to-let landlords from receiving cladding support. Communities Secretary Michael Gove revealed that landlords would not be included in the cladding remediation fund initiative; instead, funding will be targeted initially at owner-occupiers and that ‘negotiations…will explore […] Click here to view original…

The government has launched a service which will allow leaseholders living in tower blocks to track the progress of their building’s application to the Building Safety Fund. The service is expected to speed up remediation by creating transparency and holding building owners to account. It will also allow leaseholders […] Click here to view original…

A protest against Bellway outside a development in Manchester The UK’s biggest housebuilders have called on the government and companies responsible for dangerous cladding to share the £4 billion bill demanded by Michael Gove to fix the scandal. Executives from 20 large property developers pushed back against demands made […] Click here to view original…

Nearly five years after the Grenfell Tower fire, 60% of buildings in England with the same type of cladding have have been made safe, new figures show. The flammable cladding panels have been blamed for the rapid spread of the 2017 London fire, which led to 72 deaths. In […] Click here to view original…

The Communities Secretary met industry leaders to discuss how to pay for works to rectify cladding and building safety issues. Communities Secretary Michael Gove has met developers to discuss how to pay for works to rectify cladding and building safety issues. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities […] Click here to view original…

previous Building safety is again under scrutiny as the Government launches a new online service that will expose building owners who are failing to take action to fix their properties. The measures are part of government action to protect leaseholders, who will also be able to use the service […] Click here to view original…

When Michael Gove stood up in the Commons and announced that leaseholders in lower-rise blocks would no longer have to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding themselves, it seemed like the beginning of the end of a long nightmare for them. Responsibility for the building safety crisis lies […] Click here to view original…

Michael Gove warned the country’s biggest developers that he was willing to do “whatever it takes” to ensure they cover the costs of fixing fire safety defects in buildings during a crunch meeting on Thursday. The Housing Secretary hosted a roundtable that saw some of the largest developers come […] Click here to view original…

Flammable cladding was blamed for rapid spread of tower block fire Dozens of buildings in the UK still have the same type of flammable cladding that was on the Grenfell Tower almost five years after the fire that killed 72 people, government figures show. Authorities identified 481 buildings with […] Click here to view original…

Michael Gove has threatened to block major housing developers from securing planning permission if they fail to come up with a £4bn compensation scheme for victims of the cladding crisis . In a call with industry executives, the Levelling Up Secretary said that companies must recompense hundreds of thousands […] Click here to view original…

Housing Secretary Michael Gove is under pressure to secure cash from developers for safety faults both inside and outside buildings (PA) Michael Gove warned the country’s biggest developers that he was willing to do “whatever it takes” to ensure they cover the costs of fixing fire safety defects in […] Click here to view original…