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UK government funding for cladding repairs news
10 January 2022
Fire Brigades Union responds to Gove cladding announcement
The Fire Brigades Union has said that Michael Gove?s announcement on the building safety crisis still leaves residents ?desperately short of where they need to be?, more than four years after Grenfell.
Burnt out ruin of Grenfell Tower building in London:

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UK government funding for tower cladding repairs
Building safety crisis problems increase fire risk and therefore put firefighters and residents at further risk. The union has a long record of fighting for improved fire safety and has supported residents since Grenfell exposed the scale of the building safety crisis. The announcement, which comes in the form of a letter to the residential property developer industry, indicates that the government will try and secure up to £4bn for cladding repairs to buildings between 11 and 18.5m from developers. The BBC has further reported that the government may pay the costs if the funding cannot be secured from developers. Previously, many leaseholders in these buildings had been set to pay the cost of these repairs.
However, this does not cover other building safety defects in buildings of this height ? and existing funding does not cover these other ...