All building safety articles – Page 6
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NewsNumber of London resi blocks with fire safety defects ‘higher than previously thought’
Figure could be as high as 4,500
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NewsGovernment forced to publish data behind £4bn fire safety repair bill claim
Claim based on desk-based survey of 2,856 buildings, with a quarter of bill to remediate social housing sector homes
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NewsGreenhalgh: Government will follow through on threats if housebuilders don’t pay up
Building safety minister tells Housing Today Building Safety Act powers are ‘not for show’
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NewsHackitt slams construction industry for lack of progress on building safety
Building safety review author says construction is taking too long to implement change
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NewsGalliard Homes signs cladding pledge
Developer Galliard Homes commits to remediating its own tower blocks between 11m and 18m
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NewsInland Homes becomes latest housebuilder to sign the cladding pledge
Brownfield regeneration specialist promises becomes 36th developer to back deal
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NewsBuilding safety pledge and levy will cover ‘non-cladding’ issues, government confirms
DLUHC confirms all ‘life-critical’ fire safety issues can be fixed using the funds raised
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In FocusDecay, delay and deregulation: takeaways from the Grenfell Inquiry
Senior government figures had to explain why calls to amend the building regulations to clarify fire safety risk went unheeded
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NewsGove announces plan for £3bn developer levy
Plan revealed as housing secretary says 35 housebuilders now signed up to cladding pledge
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NewsCladding pledge includes promise on ‘proportionate’ repairs
Full text of pledge agreed with government ensures housebuilders will not pay for “betterment” of existing properties
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NewsUPDATED: Bellway, Vistry and Countryside latest to sign cladding costs pledge
10 housebuilders have now publicly confirmed they are signing up to Michael Gove’s deal as 53 firms ‘asked to pay up’
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NewsFormer minister in charge of building regulations had never heard of flawed fire rating
Stephen Williams says he only learned of banned Class 0 rating at yesterday’s hearing of Grenfell Inquiry
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NewsCrest Nicholson signs Gove’s ‘building safety pledge’ to fix tower blocks
Housebuilder first to confirm it will sign agreement and estimates cost will be £80m to £120m
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CommentGove’s cladding deal - what does it mean for the sector?
With negotiations on a housebuilder pledge to pay for fire safety repairs close to finalising, Joey Gardiner looks at what the likely shape of the deal says about how far the housing secretary has been able to get his way on cladding
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NewsDisastrous test failure on ACM cladding was ‘forgotten’, Grenfell inquiry hears
Senior civil servant responsible for building fire safety says 2001 tests “just got missed”
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NewsRICS updates EWS1 form to reflect ‘proportionate’ approach to fire safety checks
But forms already completed still valid until new assessments carried out on blocks
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News£19bn spend on safety and decarbonisation ‘credit negative’ for HAs, Moody’s warns
Rating agency says associations will be forced to take on more debt or cut development pipelines
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NewsHousing sector warns no progress made on dropping use of EWS1 forms
HBF, BPF and Housing Forum bosses call for further government intervention to shift to ‘proportionate’ flat valuations
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NewsFormer senior civil servant expresses ‘deep regret’ that building regulations were not revised following cladding warnings
Grenfell Inquiry told that fears over widespread use of ACM panels ‘should have been gripped better’
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News‘Disappointed’ Gove renews cladding law threat to housebuilders
Housing secretary sets end of March deadline for housebuilders to come forward with ‘fully-funded’ remediation plan after rejecting compromise offer