Wollongong Private Hospital issued fire safety order over combustible panels
A NSW hospital that was fitted with the same type of combustible material that caused the Grenfell Tower tragedy in the UK has been ordered by inspectors to take action. Wollongong Private Hospital was slapped with a fire safety order three days before Christmas after government inspectors made the […]Click here to view original web…
Buy-to-let landlords facing cladding bills ‘makes no sense’, ministers warned
Landlords have warned the Government that getting buy-to-let landlords to pay for cladding removal “makes no sense”. Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA), has urged ministers to rectify the “injustice” of these landlords potentially having to pay for remedial works on their buildings. It […] Click here to view original…
Building Safety Changes – What to Look out for in 2022
06 January 2022 | Updated 12 January 2022 The construction sector has seen a significant amount of progress in terms of building safety in the last 12 months, including the Fire Safety Act 2021 and The Hackitt Report’s recommendations. Experts from Law practice Womble Bond Dickinson (partner Simon Lewis […] Click here to view original…
Buy-to-let landlords facing cladding bills ‘makes no sense’, ministers warned
Contractors undertake works at a residential property in Paddington, London, as part of a project to remove and replace non-compliant cladding. Landlords have warned the Government that getting buy-to-let landlords to pay for cladding removal “makes no sense”. Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA), […] Click here to view original…
Lenders, cladding and the EWS1 form – Pitch 4 Finance
The issue of cladding on buildings has been in the news recently with Michael Gove announcing that housing developers must pay for the replacement of dangerous cladding materials. All well and good, but it is going to take some time to complete such a mammoth task. After all, it […] Click here to view original…
Propertymark presses for clarity on cladding funding
In a letter to Michael Gove, the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Propertymark is seeking urgent clarification that financial support to fix dangerous cladding will be made equally available to all affected leaseholders, including buy-to-let landlords. On 10 January 2022, the UK Government set out […] Click here to view original…
Buy-to-let landlords facing cladding bills ‘makes no sense’, ministers warned
Contractors undertake works at a residential property in Paddington, London, as part of a project to remove and replace non-compliant cladding. Landlords have warned the Government that getting buy-to-let landlords to pay for cladding removal “makes no sense”. Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association (NRLA), […] Click here to view original…
New fire alarm tech saves 82% for leaseholders amid cladding scandal
Prime Secure’s Fire Safety division has launched the UK’s first affordable wireless common fire alarm system, V-Fire, which removes the need for expensive waking watch fire marshals in high-rise buildings with flammable cladding. In the wake of the Grenfell disaster, thousands of leaseholders across the UK have shouldered the […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis is now ‘a building safety crisis’ and Government must do more, despairing homeowners say
Reece Lipman, 32, has been unable to sell his flat in Romford, East London, due to cladding safety issues (Photo credit: Reece Lipman) Homeowners who can’t sell their properties and face crippling bills due to unsafe cladding have urged the government to do more to help people affected by […] Click here to view original…
Buy-to-let landlords facing cladding bills ‘makes no sense’, ministers warned
Contractors undertake work at a residential property in Paddington, London, as part of a project to remove and replace non-compliant cladding (PA) Landlords have warned the Government that getting buy-to-let landlords to pay for cladding removal “makes no sense”. Ben Beadle, chief executive of the National Residential Landlords Association […] Click here to view original…
The Grays tower block residents who want their old cladding back
HOUSING providers up and down the country have been removing potentially dangerous cladding in the aftermath of the Grenfell disaster which left 72 people dead. But in the Essex town of Grays, some residents in a number of towers say they want the cladding put back. Why? asks the […] Click here to view original…
Gove requests review of spiralling insurance for flats with unsafe cladding
A review of the “crippling” insurance costs faced by residents in some buildings with unsafe cladding is to be undertaken by a watchdog, at the request of the government. Michael Gove, the communities minister, has asked the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to establish within six months why insurance premiums […] Click here to view original…