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Only half of the high-rise buildings known to have highly flammable aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding have been fully fixed, according to latest government statistics. The data shows that at the end of March only 247 or 53 per cent of the 469 high-rise residential and publicly-owned buildings in […] Click here to view original…

A Plymouth MP has slammed “dither and delay” from government ministers as leaseholders face crippling bills to reclad their tower blocks or introduce extra fire safety measures. This week it was revealed leaseholders in one Plymouth apartment block are having to fork out thousands every week after their insurance […] Click here to view original…

Flat owners in Chatham fear going bankrupt after being forced to pay to fix unsafe cladding on their buildings. As part of a government review into fire safety following the Grenfell Tower disaster, any leaseholders or outright owners of apartments in buildings under 18 metres must pay for remedial […] Click here to view original…

Work is underway to replace flammable cladding at one of Ipswich’s tallest residential blocks – three years after problems were first uncovered. Scaffolding went up at the 52m-high St Francis Tower, in Franciscan Way, in March and now contractors are on site to remove the remaining cladding material – […] Click here to view original…

Leaseholders of properties in a city centre tower block are being whacked with steep insurance payments until work to remove dangerous cladding has been removed. Ocean Crescent is just one of many buildings in Plymouth to have been found with cladding that has been classified as dangerous after 2017’s […] Click here to view original…

National campaign group End Our Cladding Scandal has called for candidates in the upcoming local elections to support calls for the Government to help. The Local Democracy Reporting Service has been in touch with leaseholders in Milton Keynes who are fearing bills of tens of thousands of pounds. “I […] Click here to view original…

Property developer and Reform UK leader Richard Tice has come up with a new warranty scheme to resolve the cladding crisis affecting thousands of landlords and tells LandlordZONE the government has ‘let down’ landlords. Nigel Farage’s successor says builders, regulators and the government should pick up the tab rather […] Click here to view original…

Print publication In March 2020 we reported on the legacy from the Grenfell tragedy that was adversely affecting leaseholders and lenders. In short, unsafe cladding and general fire safety concerns highlighted by the Grenfell Tower fire have resulted in potentially hundreds of thousands of leaseholders living in flats which […] Click here to view original…

William Martin from Sheffield whose apartment is clad in flammable material Flat owners face a 10-YEAR wait for fire-risk cladding to be removed. Only 200 teams are available to do the removal work – typically at a rate of one a year on buildings over 18 metres high. That […] Click here to view original…

The SNP is accused of “dithering and have sat on money from the UK government which should have been used to remove unsafe cladding” Banning combustible cladding from buildings will not necessarily save lives but would fuel a “mortgage lending crisis”, the Scottish government claims. In a series of […] Click here to view original…