Britain’s biggest housebuilders have told the government they must not be the only ones to pay the £4bn bill for cladding remediation.
At a crunch meeting with Michael Gove on Thursday, they said the government and companies that sold combustible materials must shoulder some of the blame.
The summit between senior executives from 20 building firms and the secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities was described as producing “constructive dialogue” but failing to make significant progress on resolving the building safety crisis affecting tens of thousands of leaseholders.
There has been frustration from the housebuilders that the government does not have a firm grasp of the size of the bill to be divided up.
