Tall & Urban News

Developers have six weeks to sign a government contract to fix their unsafe buildings that are at high risk of flammable cladding from the past 30 years. The government plan will reimburse homeowners that live in high-risk buildings and building companies that have installed unsafe cladding must pay to replace it. 

Speaking to the press on Sunday, 29 January, 2023, UK Housing Secretary Michael Gove said that “faulty” guidance was to blame for the Grenfell Tower tragedy, which resulted in a devastating fire in which killed 72 people in 2017. Cladding manufacturers like Celotex and Kingspan were not included in the mandate. Gove said the government will be committing a total of £5 billion (US$6.15 billion) towards the effort to fix the unsafe cladding issue. 

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