Gove gives housebuilders six weeks to sign cladding contract or face development ban

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Housing secretary admits building safety guidance pre-Grenfell was “faulty” and “ambiguous”

Michael Gove has given housebuilders six weeks to sign contracts to fix fire safety defects in their blocks or face a ban on developing even on schemes which have planning permission. 

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), has today published the contract that will give legal force to housebuilders’ pledge to fix ‘life-critical’ fire safety defects on their own blocks going back 30 years.

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