Commenting on today’s announcement of £1bn to ensure both public and private high rise buildings are re-clad in safe materials, Peter Johnson, chairman of Vivalda Group, said: “This is very welcome news, as the government has been dragging its feet on this issue for many months. This announcement should bring much needed respite and relief to the thousands of tenants still living in potentially unsafe buildings.
“Fixing our broken high rise housing market has been a shameful episode in the government’s period in office, which has finally been sorted. At last, they’ve provided the funds to ‘get it done’, as the Chancellor might say. We now need to pull together as an industry to bring this sorry taste of affair to a close – and bringing confidence and credit back to the embattled cladding sector.”
