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Grenfell Tower disaster

  • Monday, 2 December, 2024
    UK housebuilding
    UK government sets new deadline to fix unsafe cladding on residential buildings

    Landlords that fail to meet deadline will face ‘severe penalties’, says housing ministry

    A construction worker stands on a scaffold inspecting cladding at residential apartments in London
  • Monday, 4 November, 2024
    England’s dangerous cladding could cost £22bn to rectify, watchdog finds

    Ministers must ‘manage risks’ to limit taxpayers’ exposure to £5.1bn already budgeted, says report

    The Grenfell Tower
  • Wednesday, 16 October, 2024
    Tim Gough
    The growing problems with buying leasehold

    Stringent new regulations on adapting tall buildings are among the new challenges facing those buying a flat

  • Friday, 11 October, 2024
    UK housebuilding
    UK housebuilders to be given deadline to fix dangerous cladding

    Government will say developers must start work on unsafe tower blocks within 18 months

    Grenfell Tower and public memorial
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    Margaret Heffernan
    We need to stop asking how Grenfell happened and start asking why

    Thirty years of outsourcing and subcontracting have left us with an atomised system where no one takes responsibility

    Montage image of a red skyline and a sign with a green heart and the words ‘Grenfell forever in our hearts’
  • Friday, 6 September, 2024
    UK faces tension between post-Grenfell safety rules and housebuilding ambitions

    Ministers under pressure to implement inquiry’s recommendations

    Smoke billows from a fire at Grenfell Tower in London
  • Thursday, 5 September, 2024
    Barbara Lane
    The Grenfell tragedy exposed an entire industry’s lack of accountability

    It is critical that we embed a system-wide, holistic approach to fire safety 

    Bereaved relatives look at pictures of the Grenfell Tower fire victims during a press conference by the Grenfell Next of Kin group
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    Explainer
    ‘Incompetence, dishonesty and greed’: Key findings of Grenfell report

    Fire inquiry points blame at cladding companies and past government ministers

    Grenfell Tower
  • Wednesday, 4 September, 2024
    ‘Decades of failure’ by UK government led to Grenfell fire, report finds

    Successive administrations failed to hold companies manufacturing building products to reliable safety standards

    The fire at Grenfell Tower in west London in 2017
  • Sunday, 20 August, 2023
    Aviva chief calls for extension of cap on fire-safety costs to England’s low-rises

    Thousands of leaseholders in blocks of flats under 11 metres face bills to replace cladding six years after Grenfell disaster

    Aviva chief Amanda Blanc
  • Sunday, 6 August, 2023
    ‘Arbitrary’ cladding rules leave residents in England’s low-rises with big bills

    Leaseholders in buildings under-11m forced to pay for remediation work as they lack protection under post-Grenfell disaster legislation

  • Wednesday, 12 April, 2023
    ReviewVisual Arts
    Grenfell — a furious, devastating act of remembrance by Steve McQueen

    ‘Look what happened here, the camera says’ — novelist Diana Evans reviews a powerful film about the site of the 2017 disaster

    A view of a cityscape from above
  • Monday, 30 January, 2023
    UK property
    Property developers told to commit to £2bn UK repair scheme

    Companies have six weeks to sign up or face ‘serious consequences’

    Grenfell Tower covered, with a heart sign and the words: ‘Grenfell. Forever in our hearts’
  • Tuesday, 20 December, 2022
    UK banks
    UK banks to offer mortgages on flats with cladding

    Lenders will still require proof that remediation will be covered by developers or other schemes

    A construction worker inspects cladding at residential apartments in London
  • Thursday, 24 November, 2022
    Renting property
    Protections for England’s tenants won’t be in place until 2023, says Gove

    UK housing secretary admits government should have ‘moved more quickly’ on renters’ rights in wake of Grenfell fire

    Michael Gove
  • Thursday, 17 November, 2022
    ReviewNon-Fiction
    Show Me the Bodies — Peter Apps’ chronicle of the Grenfell deaths

    A harrowing account of the deadly 2017 fire navigates arcane building regulations to highlight state neglect and corporate wrongdoing

    Grenfell Tower in flames in June 2017
  • Friday, 15 July, 2022
    Landmark English court ruling finds contractor liable for cost of removing unsafe cladding

    Housing association awarded damages for remedial work on tower blocks in wake of Grenfell fire

    Cladding being removed from high-rise homes
  • Monday, 13 June, 2022
    ‘People knew about the risks of fire’: Grenfell five years on

    Public inquiry into tragedy exposes disregard for safety and compromised regulatory regime

    People stand and pay their respects in front of a wall where messages of support have been written, surrounding Grenfell tower in west London on June 14 2020, on the third anniversary of the high-rise fire that killed 71 people
  • Tuesday, 10 May, 2022
    Insurance
    UK financial regulator warns of intervention in tower block insurance market

    Financial Conduct Authority concerned about rising costs for leaseholders since 2017 Grenfell Tower fire

    A general view down the river Thames in London
  • Wednesday, 13 April, 2022
    UK politics
    Gove sets out new £3bn tax to fund UK cladding repairs

    Money will be paid by builders and used to fix defects highlighted by Grenfell disaster

    A construction worker inspects cladding at an apartment block in London
  • Tuesday, 5 April, 2022
    UK housebuilding
    UK developers edge towards cladding deal with government

    Several housebuilders sign pledge to carry out fire safety work on mid-rise blocks in wake of Grenfell tragedy

    An old office building undergoing renovation by Crest Nicholson
  • Monday, 14 February, 2022
    UK economy
    Gove targets cladding companies in bid to protect England leaseholders

    Changes to building safety bill will allow legal action against defective suppliers and expand powers of new regulator

    Workers at Sleaford House finish replacing flammable polystyrene cladding with a wool based material
  • Sunday, 16 January, 2022
    Campaigners call on Norway’s oil fund to exit Grenfell cladding stocks

    Activists lobby NBIM over $1.4tn wealth fund’s investments in manufacturers and developers linked to 2017 disaster

    A construction worker inspects cladding at Royal Artillery Quays residential apartments in London, UK
  • Tuesday, 11 January, 2022
    The FT ViewThe editorial board
    Developers should pay to fix unsafe cladding

    Michael Gove is right to insist that property builders have responsibility

    A new build in London, UK
  • Monday, 10 January, 2022
    Gove attempt to fix UK cladding crisis looks set to end up in court

    Campaigners warn forcing builders to pay £4bn bill leaves many leaseholders footing cost of fixing other safety issues

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