Government consults on cladding remediation tax on developers (CM, 30 April)
Why doesn’t the government make the cladding manufacturers pay up for this debacle? You will always get installers who don’t come up to scratch and lack knowledge. Stop making the ‘customer pays’ philosophy the norm. A radical rethink needs to happen.
Stewart Craven
Putting the cost solely onto developers misses two key parts of the supply chain that should be contributors to any remedial costs. While everyone is focused on the cladding and therefore the material supplier, what about poor installation, particularly missing firebreaks in the cladding and around windows and any poorly installed fire detection and suppression systems? This is defective construction and should be borne by the contractors and, if they are no longer in business, perhaps the warrantors.
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