Ministers alter post-Grenfell tower fire safety guidance, covering cladding, to ease property sales
Ministers have sought to ease the difficulties of thousands of owners of flats trapped in properties they cannot sell or remortgage by changing advice on fire safety paperwork on lower-rise blocks, a requirement introduced after the Grenfell tower blaze.
In a statement released at the same time as a Commons debate on the building safety bill, which seeks to tackle the safety and regulatory repercussions of the 2017 tower block fire in London, the housing and communities department announced the change.
