Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Councils and low-cost housing providers say they could build more than 90,000 additional affordable homes over ...

People living in dangerous homes say the “strain has never been greater” during the pandemic as official figures show 313 high rises are still covered in the material blamed for the spread of the ...

The UK government has promised to pay to replace combustible cladding on private high-rise housing, almost two years after the Grenfell Tower fire. A reported 176 privately-owned residential buildings ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The UK’s building safety crisis triggered by the 2017 fire at Grenfell tower could rumble on for another 20 ...

UK government sets cladding removal deadlineThe UK government has set out plans for a new law that would set a deadline for building owners to fix unsafe cladding. UK government sets cladding removal ...

Combustible cladding has been found on eleven high-rise blocks of flats in eight authority areas in England, Communities and Local Government Secretary Sajid Javid has said in a letter to MPs. The ...

Thousands of people in the UK are living in flats they cannot sell, because the outside wall is covered in cladding. Sometimes it's combustible, like the material that turned Grenfell Tower into an ...

Housing Secretary Michael Gove is vowing to "expose and pursue" firms responsible for safety problems caused by cladding, the BBC has learned. On Monday, he will pledge to ease the "unfair burden" ...

UK prime minister Theresa May has pledged £400 million to remove and replace dangerous cladding on social-housing blocks, one year after the Grenfell Tower fire. May made the pledge during Prime ...