Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release – February 2025
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MPs call for manufacturers to contribute to remediation bill
17 hours With the cladding crisis continuing to escalate eight years after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed safety flaws, MPs have called for product manufacturers to be forced to contribute to the rising costs. The Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 claimed 72 lives and exposed flaws in the nation’s […] Click here to view original…
Unsafe cladding must be fixed by 2029 but we still don’t know where it is
The government is unsure how many buildings have flammable cladding Eight years after the Grenfell Tower fire, the government still does not know how many buildings have dangerous cladding, how much it will cost to fix or how long it will take, MPs have warned. Angela Rayner’s plan to […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis scale unknown 8 years after Grenfell blaze
A general view of Grenfell Tower, in west London, February 9, 2025 × You can read 5 more articles this month Please help support the Morning Star by subscribing here MINISTERS were told to get their “heads out of the sand” today as MPs slammed their plans to fix […] Click here to view original…
Govt ‘at risk of not delivering’ plan to remediate cladding, say MPs
The government could potentially fail in its plan to remediate cladding on all buildings by 2029, MPs have warned. A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the target to complete works on all buildings 12 years after the Grenfell fire partly relied on new legislation, and said […] Click here to view original…
Govt ‘at risk of not delivering’ plan to remediate cladding
The Government could potentially fail in its plan to remediate cladding on all buildings by 2029, MPs have warned. A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the target to complete works on all buildings 12 years after the Grenfell fire partly relied on new legislation, and said […] Click here to view original…
England: Multiple post-Grenfell cladding failures highlighted in stinging Public Accounts Committee report
The UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has hit out at a series of failed measures to address the cladding crisis in England with thousands of unsafe buildings still yet to be identified eight years on from Grenfell and a serious under-estimation of the impact its policies are having […] Click here to view original…
Government cladding remediation plan ‘lacks ambition’, says MPs’ watchdog
(Image: Mairead via Dreamstime.com) The government’s plan to fix all unsafe high-rises in government-funded schemes by the end of 2029 “lacks ambition”, parliament’s spending watchdog has concluded. A Public Accounts Committee (PAC) report said the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government’s Remediation Acceleration Plan fails to address the […] Click here to view original…
Government remediation plans for cladding crisis fail to measure up
The cladding crisis continues to exact an unacceptable toll on people in affected buildings. A report published by the Public Accounts Committee warns that, eight years on from Grenfell, the Government still does not know how many buildings have dangerous cladding, how much it will cost to address, or […] Click here to view original…
Government ‘complacent’ over cladding capacity issue
Image: Iordanis / Shutterstock.com. The Government ‘appears complacent’ about the fact that there is insufficient capacity and skills across local government to address the dangerous cladding crisis, MPs have warned. In a report published today , the Public Accounts Commission (PAC) says the Government still does not know how […] Click here to view original…
Impact of remediation costs for social landlords on housebuilding ‘not being taken seriously enough’, PAC warns
The government is not taking the potential impact of its cladding remediation plans on housebuilding targets seriously enough, according to the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). Image: Yannick Pulver/Unsplash Sharelines Impact of remediation costs for social landlords on housebuilding “not being taken seriously enough”, @CommonsPAC warns #UKhousing The inquiry report […] Click here to view original…
Government’s cladding remediation plan at risk of not delivering, MPs warn
Re-cladding work in progress on a block of flats in Stratford, London (not on the regulator’s watchlist) Setting out its concerns in a report today (21 March), the committee said it feared the government would not meet its 2029 target to solve dangerous cladding on buildings above 18m. The […] Click here to view original…