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The government is complacent about construction sector capacity shortages that risk undermining its plans to remediate dangerous cladding in England, MPs have said. A new report from parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) released today (21 March) said far too many people were trapped in unsafe homes, facing financial uncertainty and unable to sell their properties.

Housebuilder Persimmon expects to spend more than £200m extra to remediate its remaining buildings of dangerous cladding, it revealed in its annual accounts released today (11 March). Persimmon made a provision of £235m for building safety remediation at the end of December 2024, according to its latest annual accounts. It identified 83 buildings that needed

Contractors have been told they may need to examine any VAT recovered from cladding remediation work dating back to 2021. The call comes after HMRC published a policy paper stating VAT must be paid on all cladding remediation work, unless it is snagging carried out under an original construction contract that was subject to VAT

The government is set to ramp up its post-Grenfell cladding replacement drive by creating a dedicated watchdog and enforcement unit. Building safety minister Alex Norris revealed that officials were keen to create a Remediation Enforcement Unit. Answering a written question in Parliament last Friday (7 February), he said this team would “hold owners of ACM-clad

A £15m legal claim over flammable cladding on a high-rise site in London has been paused pending a mediation procedure. Social housing provider London & Quadrant Housing Trust (L&Q) brought the claim for damages against Bouygues UK. L&Q claims it remediated two 10-storey buildings with flammable cladding and “poorly fitted” insulation, in the wake of

Cladding contractor Jessella has appointed FRP Advisory as administrator after its cash position soured. The St Albans-based contractor more than doubled its pre-tax profit to £1.4m in the year to March 2022, while increasing turnover to £39.8m compared with £21.8m the year prior. But its cash position at the end of 2021/22 had collapsed from

The cladding subcontractor working on Liverpool FC’s new Anfield Road stand has filed for administration before completing the work, Construction News can reveal. Essex-based cladding contractor SD Samuels (Special Projects) Ltd submitted a notice of intention to appoint administrators in December, after losing a key funder at short notice. The struggles at the £15m-turnover firm