The chair of the G15 group of large London-based housing associations, Geeta Nanda, has said she supports the government’s drive to get developers to pay for fire safety costs, given the extent to which housebuilders have historically benefitted from government support.

Nanda, who is chief executive of G15 landlord Metropolitan, told Housing Today LIVE that G15 housing associations had already spent half a billion pounds on fire safety repairs to their homes and were on track to spend £3.6bn over the next decade.