Eleven developers face ban over Gove’s building safety contracts

Eleven house builders have failed to meet the Government deadline to sign contracts committing them to remediate buildings in need of fire safety improvements.
Around 49 firms signed a pledge last year to remediate fire-safety defects in buildings over 11 metres that they developed or refurbished over the last 30 years in England.
But as the 13 March deadline to sign legally-binding contracts passed yesterday around a fifth of firms had still not signed.
Today housing and levelling up secretary