Amount of money, what is and isn’t covered, and who pays suggest fund may not solve the problem Ministers have announced an extra £3.5bn in funding to fix dangerous cladding on highrises in England ...

Unless insurers and mortgage firms can be persuaded to relax resistance to risk of low rises, more funds will be needed UK government faces Tory MPs backlash over fund to fix cladding Calling the ...

One of Britain's biggest housebuilders has set aside £125million to fix fire-trap flats after posting profits of £264million last year. Taylor Wimpey said the fund would 'provide certainty' for ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Developers have hit out at the government’s latest plans to resolve the cladding crisis, which could see them ...

Taylor Wimpey's profits have been wiped out by higher-than-expected costs to remove cladding from its buildings in response to the Grenfell fire tragedy. The company made a loss in the first half of ...

Manufacturers and developers could be effectively blocked from the housing market if they don't help fix cladding safety issues, the government has said. The risk posed by some kinds of aluminum ...

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Add articles to your saved list and come back to them anytime. The Morrison government has rejected Victoria’s plea to cover half of the $600 million cost of its plan to fix the state’s combustible ...

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