It’s a welcome change of tone and some good steps forward, but the Government’s promise to fix the building safety crisis is unravelling in front of our eyes ⬇️
https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1480569699058466819
It’s now clear Gove doesn’t have permission from the Treasury to raise taxes on developers. So how will he get them to pay up? He can’t say.
If they don’t pay up who does? Will he raid his levelling up budget instead? Or take money away from affordable and social housing?
Leaseholders who have already paid out won’t get their money back. How many more are likely to be charged before he comes up with a plan? (He can’t say).
What will be done about the many, many buildings that have other fire safety defects, apart from cladding? Most buildings have both. You cannot make a building half safe.
His own department can’t even process the applications they have and is off-track to replace Grenfell style cladding by half a decade. To be fair he accepted this - but when will it be fixed? He can’t say.
Four years after the appalling Grenfell tragedy, hundreds of thousands of people are still trapped in unsafe housing, millions more are caught up in the wider crisis and 72 families are waiting for justice. No more delays. We need a credible plan to fix this, in full.
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