£1bn Fund To Strip Cladding From Tall Buildings

A £1bn fund to help strip combustible cladding from homes in privately owned tower blocks is “a huge step forward”, but likely to be too little and would still leave thousands of people in financial and safety limbo, leaseholders said. The chancellor, Rishi Sunak, accepted demands to bail out hundreds of thousands of leaseholders living in buildings constructed with combustible panels that are different from those used on Grenfell Tower. His budget included the announcement of new money to remove the materials from private and social tower blocks over 18 metres tall. Read more on the Guardian website.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/mar/11/budget-2020-1bn-fund-to-strip-cladding-from-tall-buildings