• Gove threatens ban on cladding suppliers failing to pay for retrofits

    Gove threatens ban on cladding suppliers failing to pay for retrofits
    Levelling Up and Housing Secretary Michael Gove has threatened a trade ban on suppliers of cladding and insulation that refuse to play their part in funding the billions of pounds needed for building fire safety retrofits.
    Opening a second front on raising cash from the industry to meet huge remediation costs, Gove has written to the Construction Products Association saying it is not right that developers alone shoulder the burden of paying for retrofitting unsafe buildings.
    He says that three m

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