Plans to speed up the removal of unsafe cladding, including target dates for making buildings safe and tougher penalties for refusing to act, have been announced by ministers. Under the plans, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Flammable cladding on several council tower blocks in Bristol could be removed more quickly than was initially hoped. A fire ...

In the latest report on cladding removal by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), the government has said that it has taken, or is set to enforce action on 15 high rise ...

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 ...

A building safety campaigner has branded the Government’s 2029 deadline for cladding removal “essentially meaningless”. Giles Grover, from the End Our Cladding Scandal campaign group, told MPs he is ...

Digital Edition: Government may use ‘legal means’ or tax levy to force developers to pay up to £4bn on cladding removal The Government is set to ask developers to cover up to £4bn of cost to ensure ...

THE Tory government was slammed today after it failed to meet its own deadline for removing all flammable cladding from buildings. There are still about 300 buildings covered in aluminium composite ...