The government could miss its own cladding removal completion date if progress is not made to speed up the process, the UK's spending watchdog has said. In a new report, the National Audit Office (NAO ...

Developer Persimmon has vowed to set aside £75m ($104m) to fix potentially unsafe cladding on its buildings, as the government prepares a new bailout to help tackle the cladding scandal. UK housing ...

Shadow housing minister Mike Amesbury told Property Week he expected protests after the amendment, which would have made freeholders liable for the removal of dangerous cladding, was voted down on ...

More than four years after a fired raged through the 24-floor Grenfell Tower apartment building in London, causing 72 deaths, the government has told builders and developers they must fund and replace ...

The government will pay for the removal of unsafe cladding for all leaseholders in high-rise buildings, housing secretary Robert Jenrick has announced. Under plans announced today (February 10) the ...

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The property industry has reacted with a mix of praise, scepticism and criticism to the government’s plan to ask developers to cover up to £4bn in costs to remove dangerous cladding from lower-height ...

Elderly residents living in a "freezing cold" council tower block could receive financial support for heating costs. After Bristol City Council removed the flammable cladding from Gilton House in July ...

Only around 100 applications to the Government’s £1 billion Building Safety Fund to remove dangerous cladding have proceeded to the next stage, a minister has confirmed. Housing minister Chris Pincher ...

A bereaved relative has said it is “frustrating” that unsafe cladding is still an issue, three years after the Grenfell Tower fire. Karim Mussilhy, whose uncle Hesham Rahman died in the blaze, said he ...