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    • Monday, 30 January, 2023
      UK property
      Property developers told to commit to £2bn UK repair scheme

      Companies have six weeks to sign up or face ‘serious consequences’

    • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
      UK banks
      UK banks to offer mortgages on flats with cladding

      Lenders will still require proof that remediation will be covered by developers or other schemes

    • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
      Renting property
      Protections for England’s tenants won’t be in place until 2023, says Gove

      UK housing secretary admits government should have ‘moved more quickly’ on renters’ rights in wake of Grenfell fire

    • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
      ReviewNon-Fiction
      Show Me the Bodies — Peter Apps’ chronicle of the Grenfell deaths

      A harrowing account of the deadly 2017 fire navigates arcane building regulations to highlight state neglect and corporate wrongdoing

    • Friday, 15 July, 2022
      Landmark English court ruling finds contractor liable for cost of removing unsafe cladding

      Housing association awarded damages for remedial work on tower blocks in wake of Grenfell fire

    • Monday, 13 June, 2022
      ‘People knew about the risks of fire’: Grenfell five years on

      Public inquiry into tragedy exposes disregard for safety and compromised regulatory regime

    • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
      Insurance
      UK financial regulator warns of intervention in tower block insurance market

      Financial Conduct Authority concerned about rising costs for leaseholders since 2017 Grenfell Tower fire

    • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
      UK politics & policy
      Gove sets out new £3bn tax to fund UK cladding repairs

      Money will be paid by builders and used to fix defects highlighted by Grenfell disaster

    • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
      UK housebuilding
      UK developers edge towards cladding deal with government

      Several housebuilders sign pledge to carry out fire safety work on mid-rise blocks in wake of Grenfell tragedy

    • Monday, 14 February, 2022
      UK business & economy
      Gove targets cladding companies in bid to protect England leaseholders

      Changes to building safety bill will allow legal action against defective suppliers and expand powers of new regulator

    • Sunday, 16 January, 2022
      Campaigners call on Norway’s oil fund to exit Grenfell cladding stocks

      Activists lobby NBIM over $1.4tn wealth fund’s investments in manufacturers and developers linked to 2017 disaster

    • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Developers should pay to fix unsafe cladding

      Michael Gove is right to insist that property builders have responsibility

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      Gove attempt to fix UK cladding crisis looks set to end up in court

      Campaigners warn forcing builders to pay £4bn bill leaves many leaseholders footing cost of fixing other safety issues

    • Monday, 10 January, 2022
      UK housebuilding
      Developers resist Gove plans to meet bill for fixing cladding crisis

      Property companies say they are being singled out to face £4bn burden to tackle fire safety on thousands of buildings

    • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
      Mercedes F1 team and Grenfell-linked insulation group scrap partnership

      Sponsorship by Kingspan axed after outrage from survivors and victims’ families as well as government criticism

    • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
      UK government apologises for failures that led to Grenfell tragedy

      Inaction on building safety rules helped create environment that led to blaze, housing department admits

    • Monday, 6 December, 2021
      Grenfell: UK government accused of ‘grotesque abdication of responsibility’

      Next phase begins of inquiry that will examine role of ministers in disaster that killed 72 people

    • Friday, 3 December, 2021
      Mercedes-Benz AG
      Mercedes F1 team rejects calls to drop Grenfell-linked company as sponsor

      Survivors of UK tower block fire demand end to ties with insulation maker Kingspan

    • Monday, 29 November, 2021
      Property sector
      BoE concerned cladding crisis poses risk to UK financial stability

      Central bank urges lenders to audit their exposure to homes that might be unsellable

    • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
      ReviewTheatre
      Grenfell drama Value Engineering exposes how cost-cutting cost lives

      Subtitled ‘Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry’, the verbatim play at London’s Tabernacle Theatre has a devastating impact

    • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
      Bellway PLC
      UK cladding crisis could drag on for ‘two decades’, warns Bellway

      Housebuilder says differing interpretations of fire safety have slowed efforts to resolve predicament

    • Wednesday, 28 July, 2021
      UK politics & policy
      Bid to solve UK building cladding issues hits stumbling block

      Surveyors’ body says it is unable to alter guidance to home valuers until ministers change fire safety advice

    • Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
      Property sector
      UK banks agree deal on cladding to ease property sales

      Trapped leaseholders should be able to sell homes after government loosens restrictions

    • Friday, 9 July, 2021
      The FT ViewThe editorial board
      Leaseholders should not pay for the cladding crisis

      A clear market failure necessitates deeper government intervention

    • Saturday, 3 July, 2021
      Kate Henderson
      After Grenfell, buildings must be made safe for all

      Limits on funding to replace dangerous cladding means that those in social housing are at the back of the queue

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