BENGALURU: The UK government said on Wednesday it had agreed to a 5 billion pound ($6.50 billion) deal with housebuilders to eradicate flammable cladding on buildings over 11 meters high. Removing the ...

Plans to speed up the removal of unsafe cladding, including target dates for making buildings safe and tougher penalties for refusing to act, have been announced by ministers. Under the plans, ...

Up to £3bn of public money may have to be spent assessing and removing potentially flammable cladding from buildings in Scotland. New estimates from the Scottish government suggest up to 1,450 ...

LONDON, May 9 (Reuters) - The British government will spend 200 million pounds ($260 million) to replace combustible cladding on the outside of high-rise buildings after some private developers ...

New government targets to fix dangerous cladding on high-rise buildings in the next five years have been labelled as “extremely disappointing” by campaigners, who say the proposals will only ...

Manufacturers and developers could be effectively blocked from the housing market if they don't help fix cladding safety issues, the government has said. The risk posed by some kinds of aluminum ...

A new government-backed pilot scheme to remove unsafe cladding from a small group of “orphan” medium-rise buildings has launched. The scheme will help strip cladding from 60 unsafe buildings where no ...