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    • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
      Aviva chief calls for extension of cap on fire-safety costs to England’s low-rises

      Thousands of leaseholders in blocks of flats under 11 metres face bills to replace cladding six years after Grenfell disaster

      Aviva chief Amanda Blanc
    • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
      ‘Arbitrary’ cladding rules leave residents in England’s low-rises with big bills

      Leaseholders in buildings under-11m forced to pay for remediation work as they lack protection under post-Grenfell disaster legislation

    • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
      ReviewVisual Arts
      Grenfell — a furious, devastating act of remembrance by Steve McQueen

      ‘Look what happened here, the camera says’ — novelist Diana Evans reviews a powerful film about the site of the 2017 disaster

      A view of a cityscape from above
    • 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’

      Grenfell Tower covered, with a heart sign and the words: ‘Grenfell. Forever in our hearts’
    • 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

      A construction worker inspects cladding at residential apartments in London
    • 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

      Michael Gove
    • 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

      Grenfell Tower in flames in June 2017
    • 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

      Cladding being removed from high-rise homes
    • 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

      People stand and pay their respects in front of a wall where messages of support have been written, surrounding Grenfell tower in west London on June 14 2020, on the third anniversary of the high-rise fire that killed 71 people
    • 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

      A general view down the river Thames in London
    • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
      UK politics
      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

      A construction worker inspects cladding at an apartment block in London
    • 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

      An old office building undergoing renovation by Crest Nicholson
    • Monday, 14 February, 2022
      UK 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

      Workers at Sleaford House finish replacing flammable polystyrene cladding with a wool based material
    • 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

      A construction worker inspects cladding at Royal Artillery Quays residential apartments in London, UK
    • 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

      A new build in London, UK
    • 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

      Protest banners against the unfairness of cladding costs which have been passed on to leaseholders of an apartment block at Cooperative House, Peckham Rye, south London
    • 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

      Britain’s Lewis Hamilton makes a pit stop during the Saudi Arabian Grand Prix in Jiddah
    • 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

      People stand and pay their respects in front of a wall where messages of support have been written, surrounding Grenfell tower in west London
    • 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

      People hugging and examining messages on a wall in front of Grenfell Tower
    • 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

      Mercedes cars
    • 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

      High-rise flats in London
    • 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

      Workmen on a platform outside a block of flats
    • Wednesday, 28 July, 2021
      UK politics
      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

      Workers on a platform outside a high-rise block of flats
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