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To cap the costs faced to cap the costs faced by leaseholders, who own flats with flammable cladding, and other fire safety defects. ministers say no leaseholder will have to pay more than 15,000 pounds in london and £10,000 in the rest of the uk for costs related to the cladding crisis. any money already paid out since the grenfell fire will count towards the cap. campaigners have welcomed the move, but say they still shouldn't be paying a penny for problems they didn't cause. the duchess of cornwall is self—isolating, after testing positive for covid—19. in a statement, clarence house s...

The governor of colorado thanking everyone involved in the efforts there to help people caught up in those wild fires in the state. in the aftermath of the grenfell tower fire in 2017, dangerous cladding was found on thousands of high rise buildings around the world. some countries like australia took rapid action. in the state of victoria, a taskforce was set up three weeks after grenfell to find out how many buildings were unsafe. sarah corker has been finding out what uk politicians can learn from their australian counterparts. australia had an early warning about cladding. this is 2014 in ...

Storeys or more. and i think this was one of the real successes of the cladding story here, was that they were able to identify all those different buildings, do thousands of inspections, and they now know which buildings have combustible cladding. in contrast, in the uk, there are still no official figures on the number of blocks with unsafe cladding. labour and cladding campaigners have repeatedly called for ministers to follow the australian approach. thangam debbonaire. the government could have done as victoria in australia did — set up a task force to assess the extent of dangerous cla...

Removed in melbourne. a building levy has forced construction firms to help pay for the work. it is an international problem... politicians in victoria told me they've treated this as a public safety emergency. $300 million being raised through a building permit levy, because people understood, understand absolutely, the nexus between the levy and getting buildings fixed, because ultimately, this is about community safety. and we are the only state in australia that is doing this cladding rectification work. the other really important point, of course, is that we also moved to ban flammable cl...

Is about community safety. and we are the only state in australia that is doing this cladding rectification work. the other really important point, of course, is that we also moved to ban flammable cladding, and this is in fact similar to the product that was on the grenfell building. you cannot put this product on any building here in victoria, finished. the british government has introduced similar bans, and on both continents, those living in cladded buildings share similar frustrations. all that cladding, all those trimmings... government funding doesn't cover everything. it's going to cos...