In May 2017, Sophie Bichener did what many in their twenties are unable to do: buy a home. She paid around £230,000 (around $295,000 at the time) for her two-bedroom apartment in a high-rise building ...

The UK government has promised to pay to replace combustible cladding on private high-rise housing, almost two years after the Grenfell Tower fire. A reported 176 privately-owned residential buildings ...

People living in dangerous homes say the “strain has never been greater” during the pandemic as official figures show 313 high rises are still covered in the material blamed for the spread of the ...

Dangerous Grenfell Tower-style cladding has been removed from just 15% of high-rise buildings identified by the government in the aftermath of the disaster, official figures show. Only 67 of 437 ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Councils and low-cost housing providers say they could build more than 90,000 additional affordable homes over ...

UK government sets cladding removal deadlineThe UK government has set out plans for a new law that would set a deadline for building owners to fix unsafe cladding. UK government sets cladding removal ...

LONDON — Britain has ordered housebuilders to pay around $5.4 billion to help remove dangerous cladding from buildings following a deadly 2017 London fire that left government, developers and owners ...

UK prime minister Theresa May has pledged £400 million to remove and replace dangerous cladding on social-housing blocks, one year after the Grenfell Tower fire. May made the pledge during Prime ...

People have been evacuated from tower blocks in north London Cladding on 259 high-rise buildings has failed fire safety tests, latest figures reveal. The government announced plans to carry out tests ...