The government will launch today a plan to fix all unsafe high-rises in government-funded schemes by the end of 2029.

The National Audit Office is asking the government to publish a target date for completing cladding remediation.

The government could have lost over £500,000 due to “potential fraud” of the Building Safety Fund.

Health and Safety Executive inspectors from its investigations and building safety division attended yesterday (29 August) the site of a residential block of flats in Dagenham where a fire broke on Monday.

Only a third (29%) of residential buildings with unsafe cladding in England have completed remediation, according to the latest government figures.

Just 25% of residential buildings with unsafe cladding in England have completed remediation works, latest government figures show.

The government has won a landmark legal challenge against a freeholder that was delaying fixing building safety defects.

Rydon Group’s latest accounts note that Grenfell’s main contractor has spent over £19m on remedial fire safety works to date.

Housing minister Lee Rowley has admonished building owners who are not remediating unsafe residential blocks and warned them to “face the consequences for their inaction”.

Crest Nicholson will spend up to £15m over the next three years to remediate build defects on four of its sites completed before 2019.

Cardiff Council is set to approve a £25m investment plan in two high-rises in the city as part of its ongoing recladding scheme.

Government legal action has forced a developer to fix building safety issues at one of its buildings in Birmingham within three weeks.

Student accommodation provider Unite has reached an agreement with a contractor to recover 75% of cladding remediation costs from five of its buildings.

Homebuilder Bellway has made a £30.5m provision to remediate structural defects in a high-rise block of flats it built in Greenwich, London.

Combustible insulation on a high-rise residential building caught fire recently during cladding remediation work, it has emerged.

The parent company of the Grenfell Tower refurbishment contractor has signed the government’s building safety remediation contract – six months after the deadline given by the housing secretary.

In a landmark case, a tribunal handed down last month the first remediation order under the new powers granted by the Building Safety Act 2022.

Who are the developers who have joined the government’s Responsible Actors Scheme designed to make developers pay for past safety failings?