‘Disappointed’ Gove renews cladding law threat to housebuilders

By Carl Brown2022-03-08T07:00:00

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Housing secretary repeats end of month deadline for firms to come up with ‘fully-funded’ remediation plan after rejecting industry compromise

Michael Gove has said he is “disappointed” housebuilders have not come forward with a fully-funded plan to fix fire safety issues in tower blocks and repeated his threat to use legislation to force them to pay up.

The housing secretary, in a letter to the Home Builders Federation (HBF), rejected the latter’s compromise offer, under which housebuilders would only carry out critical works on buildings they have developed and hand back Building Safety Fund cash.

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