The National Audit Office thinks it will have to spend £3.8bn in total to remove combustible cladding on buildings over 11 metres high – that’s the cost-equivalent of building 91,000 much-needed new affordable homes, according to new research.
Sky News’ Rachel Venables visits an East London project where developers are worried they won’t be able to build the homes they want, due to the huge cost of fixing combustible cladding.
Read more: https://news.sky.com/story/at-least-91-000-new-affordable-homes-could-be-built-with-cladding-money-social-housing-providers-say-13337229
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