The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has launched legal action to force the landlord of a Canary Wharf apartment complex to pay £20.5 million towards building safety works, the first attempt to use the powers created by the Building Safety Act 2022 designed to pursue owners of buildings for post-Grenfell remediation costs.
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