All fire safety articles – Page 3
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Government must step in and resolve difficulties around cladding pledge
Serious questions remain about housebuilders’ pledge to carry out fire safety works on existing blocks, not least about the role of building owners, writes Charmaine McQueen-Prince
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Housing association wins key legal battle with contractor over faulty cladding liability
Hyde subsidiary celebrates as contractor Mulalley facing potential bill of £8m over dispute on Portsmouth towers
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Partnerships builder Willmott Dixon says supply chain ‘dodging’ £44m cladding repair bill
Firm’s chairman promises legal action against subcontractors over mixed use scheme
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Banks agree to lend on properties with defects if remediation plan in place
Housing secretary Greg Clark welcomes move to unlock the lending market.
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Clark presses on with £3bn fire safety levy on housebuilders
New housing secretary rules out U-turn on controversial levy to pay for ‘orphaned’ blocks
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Gove warns of legal action if landlords send remediation bills to leaseholders
Building Safety Act provisions to protect leaseholders come into force today
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RIBA to investigate post-Grenfell crisis in professional indemnity costs
Cost of PI insurance has risen in the wake of rising claims over fire safety defects and poses ‘existential risk’ to building designers
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Government admits deregulation drive stopped officials raising fire safety warnings prior to Grenfell
But housing department lawyer tells Grenfell Inquiry that “competent” industry professionals would not have signed off flammable cladding systems
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More developers sign government’s cladding pledge
Hopkins Homes, Robertson, Story and Weston Homes among housebuilders to promise to repair homes affected by fire safety crisis
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Number of London resi blocks with fire safety defects ‘higher than previously thought’
Figure could be as high as 4,500
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Use of EWS1 forms still increasing, official data shows
Fire safety assessments being used more often despite being ’scrapped’ by the government last summer
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Government 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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Government will ask smaller housebuilders to sign cladding pledge
Levelling Up department confirms it will be looking at approaching smaller house builders in a “targeted way”
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Barratt boss rounds on Gove over £3bn levy plan
David Thomas brands cladding levy unfair, unjust and disproportionate
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Telford Homes signs government cladding pledge
London-based Telford Homes becomes the 39th developer to sign the letter committing to remediating its blocks above 11m
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Products firms refusing to back down over demand to pay cladding bill, CPA says
Boss says “all manufacturers stand behind their products” as row shows no sign of being resolved
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Building Safety Bill ‘to become law tomorrow’
Minister for building safety Stephen Greenhalgh tweets that mammoth legislation in line for Royal Assent
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Persimmon calls for £3bn levy to take account of contributions already made
Housebuilder pledges to work with government to ensure controversial £3bn levy is ‘fair’
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Galliard Homes signs cladding pledge
Developer Galliard Homes commits to remediating its own tower blocks between 11m and 18m
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UPDATED: full list of developers to have signed the cladding pledge
A total of 47 developers have so far signed the government’s demand they commit to remediating buildings between 11m and 18m and one has signalled an intent to do so.