birketts – ‘Developers must pay’: plans for industry to foot the bill of the cladding crisis

The Grenfell Tower disaster in June of 2017 shed light to one of the biggest crises in the housing and development sector to date. It highlighted that a number of buildings across the UK had been clad in highly combustible materials and/or lacked fire safety features such as exterior firebreaks. The cladding crisis has dominated mainstream news for the last four years and the most discussed issue is who should pay for the cost of making good these dangerously clad towers.