Cladding
Polluter Pays Amendment seeks to reform building safety standards
AN AMENDMENT to the Levelling Up and Regeneration Bill is set to be debated by the Earl of Lytton in the House of Lords on Monday 24 April. The proposed Polluter Pays Amendment will provide added protection for property owners who have discovered their buildings were not constructed to […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreGove piles pressure on cladding firms and warns shareholders of ‘consequences’ if they don’t pay up
Kingspan, Arconic and Saint-Gobain have yet to commit money towards repairs Michael Gove has warned the shareholders of three cladding firms of “severe consequences” if they fail to put forward a comprehensive financial package to help fix unsafe buildings. The housing secretary has written to investors in Kingspan, Arconic […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreNow Gove targets cladding shareholders
2 hours Michael Gove’s crusade against companies behind the Grenfell Tower fire has led him to warn shareholders of the product manufacturers that their reputations are also at risk. Michael Gove, secretary of state at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities Michael Gove has already written to […] Click here to view original…
Read More‘Severe consequences’ for cladding companies who refuse to remediate, government warns investors
Housing Secretary warns cladding shareholders of “severe consequences” for manufacturers if they do not bring forward comprehensive remediation package. From: Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities and The Rt Hon Michael Gove MP Published 20 April 2023 Shareholders in three cladding companies, whose shocking practices were uncovered in […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreGove warns shareholders in three cladding firms of ‘severe consequences’ if they do not pay up
Kingspan, Arconic and Saint-Gobain have yet to commit money towards repairs Michael Gove has warned the shareholders of three cladding firms of “severe consequences” if they fail to put forward a comprehensive financial package to help fix unsafe buildings. The housing secretary has written to investors in Kingspan, Arconic […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreGove urges Blackrock and other investors to push cladding firms to pay for clean up costs
Michael Gove is trying to push cladding firms to pay for remediation works on the buildings affected by the unsafe cladding they sold. (Photo by Ian Forsyth/Getty Images) Housing Secretary Michael Gove has warned investors that the cladding companies they invest in will face “severe consequences” if the firms […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreKeir Starmer gets free football tickets from firm forced to pay out £10.8m over defective cladding in landmark case after Grenfell Tower fire (… and Labour leader sees his beloved Arsenal throw away a two-goal lead)
Sir Keir Starmer got free football tickets from a firm that was ordered to pay out £10.8million over defective cladding in a landmark court ruling after the Grenfell Tower disaster. The Labour leader has declared a donation of hospitality match tickets, valued at £1,070, from Mulalley & Co Limited […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreKeir Starmer gets free football tickets from firm forced to pay out £10.8m over defective cladding in landmark case after Grenfell Tower fire (… and Labour leader sees his beloved Arsenal throw away a two-goal lead)
Sir Keir Starmer got free football tickets from a firm that was ordered to pay out £10.8million over defective cladding in a landmark court ruling after the Grenfell Tower disaster. The Labour leader has declared a donation of hospitality match tickets, valued at £1,070, from Mulalley & Co Limited […] Click here to view original…
Read More‘Up for $60,000’: Apartment owners in never-ending legal nightmare over flammable cladding
A never-ending legal nightmare for hundreds of apartment owners in a Sydney development inched closer to resolution this week after a court ruled against the builder in a dispute over potentially deadly combustible cladding. But owners at The Quay in the inner-city suburb of Haymarket have been told they […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreIpswich tower block residents face another summer behind plastic
Work to strip the flammable cladding from the 17-storey St Francis Tower began in August 2018 People living in a tower block of flats shrouded in plastic have been told the work would continue for more than another six months, a landlord said. Work to strip the flammable cladding […] Click here to view original…
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