Cladding

(Alliance News) – Housebuilders and developers have six weeks to agree to a GBP2 billion remediation package for unsafe buildings or face “significant consequences”, the UK government said on Monday. Together with an earlier Building Safety Levy, it means developers will pay about GBP5 billion, as the UK government […] Click here to view original…

Building firms today received legally binding contracts worth £2bn that will commit them to pay to repair unsafe buildings, from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. The department, led by secretary of state Michael Gove, has set a six-week deadline for developers to sign the legal agreements […] Click here to view original…

Building firms today received legally binding contracts worth £2bn that will commit them to pay to repair unsafe buildings, from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. The department, led by secretary of state Michael Gove, has set a six-week deadline for developers to sign the legal agreements […] Click here to view original…

Housebuilders and developers have been given six weeks to agree to a £2bn remediation package for “unsafe buildings” or face “significant consequences”, the UK government said on today. Together with an earlier Building Safety Levy, it means developers will pay about £5bn as the UK government moves to shore […] Click here to view original…

LONDON, Jan 30 (Reuters) – Housing companies will be blocked from new development work unless they agree to pay for cladding removal and other repairs on unsafe multi-storey buildings – a bill totalling 2 billion pounds ($2.5 billion) – the British government said on Monday. Ministers want developers to […] Click here to view original…

(Alliance News) – Housebuilders and developers have six weeks to agree to a GBP2 billion remediation package for unsafe buildings or face “significant consequences”, the UK government said on Monday. Together with an earlier Building Safety Levy, it means developers will pay about GBP5 billion, as the UK government […] Click here to view original…

Since the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, several hundred thousand people are still trapped in flats considered to be dangerous The levelling-up secretary makes a remarkable admission today. Michael Gove tells our reporters that “faulty and ambiguous” government guidance was partly responsible for the unsafe homes that mushroomed in […] Click here to view original…

Housing secretary admits building safety guidance pre-Grenfell was ‘faulty’ and ‘ambiguous’ Michael Gove has given housebuilders six weeks to sign contracts to fix fire safety defects in their blocks or face a ban on developing – even on schemes which have planning permission. Michael Gove is secretary of state […] Click here to view original…

Grenfell Tower Housing secretary Michael Gove has become the first minister to admit the government’s building regulations were faulty and unclear before the Grenfell Tower fire In interviews over the weekend, Gove said ambiguity in Approved Document B – which sets out how to comply with Part B of […] Click here to view original…

(Bloomberg) — Britain’s homebuilders have six weeks to sign a UK government contract that will commit them to repair unsafe cladding on apartment blocks — or face banishment from the housing market. The pledge will commit firms to spend an estimated £2 billion ($2.5 billion) to fix tall buildings […] Click here to view original…