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"We are coming for you" - Michael Gove's warning to firms that cut corners, sought to profiteer and mis-sold dangerous products No leaseholder living in a building higher than 11m, around four to six ...

The owners of Skyline Chambers in Manchester were taken to a tribunal by the government under the Building Safety Act. Owners of flats in buildings with unsafe cladding and safety defects say they ...

Victoria is pushing for a national ban on the import of building materials implicated in the Grenfell Tower fire Victorian planning minister Richard Wynne says removing flammable cladding from the ...

The owners of tall buildings face pressure to continue removing dangerous cladding, despite coronavirus, after a new fire test showed how quickly flames can spread. Cladding previously deemed safer ...