An influential committee of MPs has warned government that its housebuilding targets are under threat due to cladding costs, slamming its handling of remediation as "complacent" and lacking ambition.

Leaseholders have described their dismay at facing "unaffordable" increases in charges to pay for the removal of cladding on their building. Joseph Brown, 63, has owned a flat in Harrowden Court, ...

Up to £3bn of public money may have to be spent assessing and removing potentially flammable cladding from buildings in Scotland. New estimates from the Scottish government suggest up to 1,450 ...

LONDON (Reuters) - When the deadly Grenfell Tower blaze in 2017 led to revelations that high-rise public housing buildings across Britain were wrapped in flammable cladding, the government vowed the ...

Leaseholders at a Birmingham apartment block have said their homes have become "unliveable" as long running cladding and safety works remain unfinished, in what they call a "horror story". Residents ...

The UK government has reaffirmed its commitment to fixing thousands of residential buildings with external cladding before ...

The King’s Speech has set out a raft of new Bills to facilitate the construction of infrastructure, new social housing and ...

The Building Safety Act has made huge changes to the rights and obligations of landlords. Landlords and developers can be required to remedy fire safety issues and defects going right back to 1992, ...

When Abhijeet Kadwe bought a flat on the banks of the River Clyde in 2018, he thought he had found the ideal home for his family - as well as making a sound financial investment. But after flammable ...

Housing secretary Angela Rayner has slammed the pace of cladding remediation work, following the outbreak of a fire at a residential block in Dagenham, east London on Monday (26 August). The London ...

There is a “widening” gap between identification and action in cladding remediation. Using government data, Property Inspect found while the UK is monitoring more high-rise buildings with potential ...

Cladding, social housing and leasehold were all mentioned as focuses for the government by King Charles III in today's King's ...