Non-cladding defects are not included A leaked letter from the Treasury suggests the plan was not allowed to cover “non-cladding” defects. This is important because cladding is not the only problem ...

The government still does not know how many buildings in England have dangerous cladding, the costs of removing it, or the length of time it will take, according to a committee of MPs. In a report, ...

Michael Gove has announced a new scheme to tackle the cladding crisis which has been a pressing matter for the government since the 2017 Grenfell disaster. The housing and levelling up secretary says ...

The new tax is part of Angela Rayner’s plan to speed up remediation works on buildings with unsafe cladding - Joe Giddens/PA Angela Rayner’s £3.4bn “cladding” tax on developers has been branded ...

Wooden cladding and decking on a roof terrace garden could be a fire risk at a high rise block of flats in Swindon. The agent for Wellington House, a seven-storey block of flats in Wellington Street, ...

Plans to impose loans on cladding victims should be scrapped in favour of a major new fund, MPs have said. Government schemes to help hundreds of thousands of leaseholders facing crippling bills to ...

Top Tory Michael Gove has torn up the government’s plan for dealing with cladding - and announced a new one. The Housing Secretary axed £50-a-month loans for people in “medium-rise” blocks to pay for ...