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  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    ‘People knew about the risks of fire’: Grenfell five years on

    Public inquiry into tragedy exposes disregard for safety and compromised regulatory regime

  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Insurance
    UK financial regulator warns of intervention in tower block insurance market

    Financial Conduct Authority concerned about rising costs for leaseholders since 2017 Grenfell Tower fire

  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    UK politics & policy
    Gove sets out new £3bn tax to fund UK cladding repairs

    Money will be paid by builders and used to fix defects highlighted by Grenfell disaster

  • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
    UK housebuilding
    UK developers edge towards cladding deal with government

    Several housebuilders sign pledge to carry out fire safety work on mid-rise blocks in wake of Grenfell tragedy

  • Monday, 14 February, 2022
    UK business & economy
    Gove targets cladding companies in bid to protect England leaseholders

    Changes to building safety bill will allow legal action against defective suppliers and expand powers of new regulator

  • Sunday, 16 January, 2022
    Campaigners call on Norway’s oil fund to exit Grenfell cladding stocks

    Activists lobby NBIM over $1.4tn wealth fund’s investments in manufacturers and developers linked to 2017 disaster

  • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Developers should pay to fix unsafe cladding

    Michael Gove is right to insist that property builders have responsibility

  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    Gove attempt to fix UK cladding crisis looks set to end up in court

    Campaigners warn forcing builders to pay £4bn bill leaves many leaseholders footing cost of fixing other safety issues

  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    UK housebuilding
    Developers resist Gove plans to meet bill for fixing cladding crisis

    Property companies say they are being singled out to face £4bn burden to tackle fire safety on thousands of buildings

  • Wednesday, 8 December, 2021
    Mercedes F1 team and Grenfell-linked insulation group scrap partnership

    Sponsorship by Kingspan axed after outrage from survivors and victims’ families as well as government criticism

  • Tuesday, 7 December, 2021
    UK government apologises for failures that led to Grenfell tragedy

    Inaction on building safety rules helped create environment that led to blaze, housing department admits

  • Monday, 6 December, 2021
    Grenfell: UK government accused of ‘grotesque abdication of responsibility’

    Next phase begins of inquiry that will examine role of ministers in disaster that killed 72 people

  • Friday, 3 December, 2021
    Mercedes-Benz AG
    Mercedes F1 team rejects calls to drop Grenfell-linked company as sponsor

    Survivors of UK tower block fire demand end to ties with insulation maker Kingspan

  • Monday, 29 November, 2021
    Property sector
    BoE concerned cladding crisis poses risk to UK financial stability

    Central bank urges lenders to audit their exposure to homes that might be unsellable

  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    ReviewTheatre
    Grenfell drama Value Engineering exposes how cost-cutting cost lives

    Subtitled ‘Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry’, the verbatim play at London’s Tabernacle Theatre has a devastating impact

  • Tuesday, 19 October, 2021
    Bellway PLC
    UK cladding crisis could drag on for ‘two decades’, warns Bellway

    Housebuilder says differing interpretations of fire safety have slowed efforts to resolve predicament

  • Wednesday, 28 July, 2021
    UK politics & policy
    Bid to solve UK building cladding issues hits stumbling block

    Surveyors’ body says it is unable to alter guidance to home valuers until ministers change fire safety advice

  • Wednesday, 21 July, 2021
    Property sector
    UK banks agree deal on cladding to ease property sales

    Trapped leaseholders should be able to sell homes after government loosens restrictions

  • Friday, 9 July, 2021
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Leaseholders should not pay for the cladding crisis

    A clear market failure necessitates deeper government intervention

  • Saturday, 3 July, 2021
    Kate Henderson
    After Grenfell, buildings must be made safe for all

    Limits on funding to replace dangerous cladding means that those in social housing are at the back of the queue

  • Tuesday, 15 June, 2021
    Helen Thomas
    The information deficit at the heart of the cladding scandal

    Four years after Grenfell and understanding of the fire safety issues raised remains murky

  • Tuesday, 1 June, 2021
    Ballymore Properties Ltd
    London tower blaze ventilation acted like ‘broken chimney’

    Fire brigade says safety failings of building should be ‘wake-up call to all owners’

  • Friday, 19 February, 2021
    Kingspan Group PLC
    Grenfell supplier Kingspan unable to quantify costs of fixing other blocks

    Insulation group says a ‘building-by-building’ examination of possible remediation cases is needed

  • Tuesday, 16 February, 2021
    Grenfell cladding burnt 10 times faster than similar product

    Inquiry hears French manufacturer did not notify customers of 2004 safety tests

  • Friday, 12 February, 2021
    London fire service has not fully learnt lessons of Grenfell, inspector warns

    Brigade cannot be sure its response to similar disaster would be ‘vastly improved’ three years after event

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