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Evening Standard
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Oscar Williams-Grut

House building Bellway warns of ‘significant’ costs from Michael Gove’s cladding proposals

Housing Secretary Michael Gove

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Bellway faces “significantly” higher costs linked to the cladding crisis if the government pushes forward with proposals to make the building industry pay to fix historic fire safety issues.

Bellway said it would have to take “a significant additional provision” if Housing Secretary Michael Gove is successful in efforts to get developers to fix cladding issues on properties built over the past 30 years.

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