Barratt stumps up £2m to replace cladding on Croydon tower

By Hamish Champ2018-04-23T06:00:00

Housebuilder to cover the cost of removing Grenfell-style cladding

Developers who build apartments where faulty cladding needs to be removed should cover the cost of the work to avoid residents having to face crippling bills, the government said.

Housing minister Sajid Javid said building owners and housebuilders should follow the example of Barratt, which announced last week it will pay for the £2m cost of replacing cladding identical to that used on Grenfell Tower and which it installed on the exterior of Citiscape, a residential tower block it built in Croydon more than a decade ago.

The housebuilder said it would cover the cost of removing cladding on the nine-storey, 95-home apartment block, constructed in 2002.

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