Taxpayers face £4m bill as landlord refuses to make tower block safe

Slough council poised to take over freehold of property and pay for safety work as current owner refuses to foot billA landlord who is refusing to pay an estimated £4m bill to make safe a block of flats built with Grenfell-style cladding is likely to be bailed out by the taxpayer.Robert Steinhouse, a London-based director of 91 companies, is the ultimate owner of the freehold of Nova House in Slough, a complex of 68 privately owned apartments which has flammable cladding and substandard in