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.

The chair of the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee, Clive Betts, has written to housing minister Lee Rowley asking for “clarity on the timeline” for the long-awaited government’s response to the construction products testing review.

An MP suggested there are similarities between the unsafe cladding crisis and the Post Office scandal during a select committee session on fire safety.

The government has failed to engage with the results of a key product testing review that itself had commissioned, one of the report’s authors told a Commons select committee this week.

Following a recent government announcement, second staircases in high-rises are back in the spotlight. Michelle Essen and Kate Hanson explain what’s new.

DLUHC has launched a tender process for a new principal contractor for the ongoing maintenance and security of the Grenfell Tower site.

Lawyers from Watson Farley & Williams digest the latest recommendations published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities on the golden thread.

The government wants to introduce regulations to mandate separate male and female toilets in all new public buildings in England.

Government and regulatory bodies have sent a stern warning to building owners to get on with remediation work or face “the full range of their enforcement powers”.

CIOB has welcomed the government’s new requirement on all new buildings of 18 metres or higher to have a second staircase.

DLUHC has launched a project to standardise at scale and encourage the uptake of MMC through the development of an open-source kit of parts.

DLUHC has announced a £42.5m grant to support the delivery of the Building Safety Act 2022 over the next three years.

Demand for housing looks likely to diffuse throughout the UK in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, writes Kris Hudson.