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‘Disappointed’ Gove rejects housebuilders’ cladding offer

By 2022-03-08T09:27:00

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Housing secretary sets end of March deadline for housebuilders to come forward with ‘fully-funded’ remediation plan

Michael Gove has said he is ‘disappointed’ housebuilders have not come forward with a fully-funded plan to fix fire safety issues in tower blocks and repeated his threat to use legislation to force them to pay up.

The housing secretary, in a letter to the Home Builders Federation(HBF) rejected the body’s compromise offer, under which housebuilders would only carry out critical works on buildings they have developed and hand back Building Safety Fund cash.

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