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ACM cladding
Three quarters of an initial £200m government funding pot to help private-sector residential building owners fix unsafe cladding has been allocated, according to the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG).
At the end of December 2020, £151m had been granted to fund various stages of remediation work, with full project funding having been approved for 64 buildings, its latest progress report said. Exactly 100 sites are eligible for the cash, with 94 having already applied for funding and the remainder expected to follow suit.
Earlier this month, the
Sunday Times reported that agreed funding came with ‘gagging’ orders, preventing building owners from speaking to the press without prior government approval.