High Court orders contractor to pay up and fix faulty cladding

By Daniel Gayne2022-07-18T06:00:00

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Mulalley facing potential bill of £8m over dispute on Portsmouth towers

A specialist housing contractor has been told to pay damages to the owner of a set of Portsmouth towers in the first High Court judgment on fire safety defects in high-rise cladding since the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Housing association Martlet Homes, part of Hyde Housing, had made the claim against Mulalley over cladding works it completed on Gosport Towers.

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