Housebuilders Barratt, Bellway, Berkeley, Gleeson, Crest Nicholson, Morgan Sindall, Persimmon, Redrow, Weston, Taylor Wimpey and Vistry have all confirmed they have signed the contract underpinning the pledge made last year to fix historic fire safety failures in their high-rise homes, ahead of a government deadline to sign the contract by the end of today.

The housebuilders’ decisions to sign the “self remediation contract” have come after widespread confusion and anger last week in the industry after Michael Gove took to twitter to threaten housebuilders with being banned from the industry, prior to officials having actually issued the final versions of the contract to companies to sign.

…