The government says it hopes the changes will speed up the process of removing cladding.

Simply sign up to the UK banks myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The UK’s six largest banks will begin lending on properties with cladding that are 11 metres or taller from January, ...

Contractors who have paid to replace unsafe cladding could find it easier to recover their costs from product manufacturers ...

Rishi Sunak’s Autumn Budget has confirmed the new residential property developer tax will be charged at 4% on residential developer profits over £25m from April 2022. The details follow the recent ...

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 ...

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 ...

Britain has ordered housebuilders to pay around $5.4 billion to help remove dangerous cladding from buildings following a deadly 2017 London fire that left government, developers and owners at ...

Dangerous Grenfell Tower-style cladding has been removed from just 15% of high-rise buildings identified by the government in the aftermath of the disaster, official figures show. Only 67 of 437 ...

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 ...

Two distinct forces are reshaping how developers and property investors think about external timber cladding in the UK. The first is regulatory — the post-Grenfell changes to building fire safety ...

PMQs have generated nothing but quarrels in recent weeks so Theresa May’s announcement that the government will pay for unsafe cladding to be stripped off tower blocks and replaced is a happy ...