Leaseholders say they are gearing up for protests in London, Ipswich, Bristol and Manchester (Photo: Supplied) Leaseholders affected by the cladding crisis branded the £5bn fund for victims announced in this week’s Budget a “slap in the wrist” for developers and a “slap in the face” for homeowners. Many […]Click here to view original web…

Leigh Faulkner’s flat was in the Victoria Wharf development in Cardiff Bay Leigh Faulkner’s two-bed flat had been worth around £175,000 but he sold it for £50,000 less after post-Grenfell fire safety problems emerged. The 54-year-old father-of-two decided to “take the hit” financially because of uncertainty over government help. […] Click here to view original…

ITV news correspondent Elaine Willcox has been speaking to Giles Grover from Manchester Cladiators and Helen Rowe from Runcorn. People across the North West caught up in the cladding scandal say the announcement in the Budget for a 4% levy on large construction firms is not good enough. Rishi […] Click here to view original…

Cladding-hit flat owner is TROLLED online by Government agency worker for speaking out 1 A cladding-hit flat owner who spoke out against her £101k repair bill is trolled online by a GOVERNMENT agency worker Flat owner Emily Boswell was trolled after speaking out about her cladding bill Miss Boswell […] Click here to view original…

A flat owner who spoke out against her £101,000 cladding repair bill has been trolled online by someone working for a government housing agency. In an exchange on Twitter , 26-year-old Emily Boswell was accused by the social media user of ‘playing victim’ and ‘blatant attention seeking’ after she […] Click here to view original…

It could take another three and half years to finish removing unsafe cladding from high-risk buildings across the UK, according to a recent analysis. It may take until the end of 2024 to remove combustible ACM cladding from high-rise buildings that are considered to be at high risk in […] Click here to view original…

Residents of the eight-storey Hemisphere Apartments in Birmingham have been in limbo for 18 months due to fire risk concerns The government will introduce a new 4% tax on the largest, most profitable property developers from April 2022 to help pay for new cladding on unsafe buildings. The tax, […] Click here to view original…

The property industry has responded to Rishi Sunak’s Budget , applauding the level of intended investment while maintain some cautious optimism around efforts to support those affected by the cladding scandal. Housing is a central tenet of the government’s “levelling up” agenda, with £millions pledged in an effort to […] Click here to view original…

Ipswich Cladiators’ spokesman Alex Dickin is angry at Rishi Sunak for not allocating more money to help leaseholders in the wake of the cladding crisis. Ipswich leaseholders disappointed by the government’s ongoing handling of the cladding crisis will rally this weekend in a call for further action. Ipswich Cladiators […] Click here to view original…

CLADDING The biggest housebuilders will be hit with a £200million-a-year levy to help fix the cladding scandal. The Government will charge property developers with profits over £25million at a rate of 4 per cent. It will help to create a fund that can be used to remove cladding put […] Click here to view original…

A “comprehensive plan” is needed to help leaseholders in high-risk flats who have been left with bills running into the hundreds of thousands and flats that are worthless, ministers have been told. Labour former minister Hilary Benn told the Commons he had heard from a constituent facing a bill […] Click here to view original…

The U.K. government confirmed it will tax the country’s largest property firms to help replace unsafe cladding in apartments that’s left thousands of people in potentially dangerous homes. Chancellor of the exchequer Rishi Sunak said the government will levy a 4% tax on developers’ profits that exceed 25 million […] Click here to view original…