Gleeson sets aside £12.9m for building safety work

House builder MJ Gleeson has set aside £12.9m towards recladding work on high rise buildings in the wake of the Grenfell disaster.
It said: “The group has established an exceptional provision of £12.9m for the estimated costs to remediate life-critical fire-safety issues on buildings over 11 metres in which the group had some involvement in developing over the last 30 years.”
The provision was confirmed in Gleeson’s latest results which highlighted a strong year as