Taylor Wimpey shelling out £30m to strip out ACM cladding at its sites

By Dave Rogers2018-07-31T09:18:00

Firm says majority of figure relates to a scheme in Scotland

Taylor Wimpey has said it is spending £30m removing aluminium composite cladding from a number of its sites following last year’s Grenfell tower fire.

The cladding was blamed for helping the fire at the west London tower block spread last June which claimed 72 lives.

In its interim results announced this morning, the country’s second biggest housebuilder said the majority of the money being spent was at a site in Scotland.

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