Gove is back, and property developers are worried 🔴 Whitehall’s disruptor in chief is back and ready to have difficult conversations ✍️ Victoria_Spratt and BenGartside
Seven housing secretaries in the five years since Grenfell. No revolving door in Whitehall, not even that of No 10, moves so fast as the one at the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities .: unstable private renting, poor quality social housing, dangerous cladding.for his second turn as Housing Secretary after being unceremoniously sacked by a beleaguered Boris Johnson in July for “disloyalty”..
He had sought unlimited liabilities for developers who signed on, thus ensuring that the cladding crisis would finally come to an end. Developers insist this is unworkable – how can they be liable for problems which arise years in the future, they argue. Housebuilders are said to have prefered the strategy of Simon Clarke, Mr Gove’s predecessor as housing secretary in no uncertain terms that Mr Gove is back in business and “will not be messed around”.