Housebuilders warn cladding pledge contract is ‘impossible to sign’

By Joey Gardiner2022-08-01T11:15:00

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Builders say current legal text contains commitments well beyond original pledge

Major housebuilders have told the government they will refuse to sign the contract drawn up by officials to make their £2bn cladding pledge a reality unless it is radically re-drafted.

The draft legal contract, published by the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) last month, is designed to bring legal force to a heads of terms pledge, agreed with the department in late March and now signed by a total of 48 developers, to repair fire safety issues on all buildings going back 30 years, without public funding.

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