Australian building owners face a bill that could run into billions of dollars to replace combustible cladding of the sort that fuelled the Greenfell tower fire in the UK, which killed 72 people, as ...

Developer Persimmon has vowed to set aside £75m ($104m) to fix potentially unsafe cladding on its buildings, as the government prepares a new bailout to help tackle the cladding scandal. UK housing ...

The Building Safety Act was put in place following the Grenfell Tower tragedy and the discovery that many other high-rise residential buildings have serious fire-safety defects. Phil Westerman The ...

Australia has more than 3,400 buildings with flammable cladding. In Victoria alone, at least 71 of these buildings have been classified as “extreme risk” and another 368 as “high risk”. Despite the ...

Cladding and cost-of-living crises collide Years of delay and disputes over who should cover the cost, combined with the sheer stress of living in unsafe buildings, have weighed heavily on residents.

The Government’s new cladding tax introduced in yesterday’s Budget could cost the nation’s biggest housebuilders £205m a year, according to Sirius Property Finance.

Following public consultation earlier this year, draft legislation for a new residential property developer tax has been published by HM Treasury. The aim is to help fund the growing costs of cladding ...

Landlords in the line of fire over cladding. A High Court ruling says landlords are responsible for removing dangerous ...