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LEGISLATION

Legislation and investment to boost cladding remediation

Thousands of buildings with unsafe cladding are expected to be fixed faster thanks to fresh legislation and investment in social housing remediation.

Re-cladding work on a block of flats in a high rise building in east London, England © Fred Duval/Shutterstock.com

Thousands of buildings with unsafe cladding are expected to be fixed faster thanks to fresh legislation and investment in social housing remediation.

The Government has committed to invest more than £1bn to give social landlords equal access to funding schemes as private building owners while a remediation Bill will be brought forward to make sure landlords are ‘held to account for fixing unsafe cladding and to tackle the slow pace of action across the sector'. 

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