U.K. to Set Out Plan for Fire-Risk Apartment Cladding Crisis

Firefighters with fire in background

U.K.’s biggest house builder sets aside more than $100 million.

March 1, 2021
Emily Ashton & Olivia Konotey-Ahulu - Bloomberg

The U.K. government will set out its plans for stripping cladding from potentially unsafe apartment blocks, more than three years after a fire at London’s Grenfell Tower killed 72 people.

Reports suggest Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick will set out a package of measures amounting to billions of pounds when he makes a statement to the House of Commons on Wednesday.

Ministers announced a 1.6 billion pound ($2.2 billion) “safety fund” to remove dangerous cladding last year but Jenrick is expected to announce additional support on top of this. The price for the repairs could be as high as 15 billion pounds, according to a parliamentary committee last June.

Reprinted courtesy of Emily Ashton, Bloomberg and Olivia Konotey-Ahulu, Bloomberg



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