Cladding

Ipswich councillors from across the political divide have united in backing more than 1,800 Ipswich flat residents in their plight to seek answers to the country’s cladding crisis. Ipswich Borough Council unanimously backed a motion at its meeting on Wednesday night calling for the government to take action on […] Click here to view original…

Cllr Judith Blake is stepping down as the Leader of Leeds City Council following her appointment to the House of Lords. I have had the privilege of working with Judith over many years in her roles both as a Middleton Ward councillor and as Council Leader and I just […] Click here to view original…

PA Media A technical manager at the maker of the Grenfell Tower cladding told colleagues poor fire test results on the product needed to be kept “very confidential”. The request, in capital letters, was in an email sent in 2010 and produced at the public inquiry into the 2017 […] Click here to view original…

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(Getty Images) Arconic , the company which made cladding for Grenfell Tower , did not tell its customers about the dangers of one of its products following a 2009 blaze in another building because nobody was injured or died, an inquiry has heard. The president of the firm’s French […] Click here to view original…

Northern Ireland eviction protections extended until end of September Analysis reveals landlords slowest to comply with Housing Ombudsman orders What do the changes to the Fire Safety Bill mean? Arconic allowed post-Grenfell certificate for cladding to repeat false fire test claim Church of England poised to make ‘widespread and […] Click here to view original…

British regulator was not told by Arconic of combustible panels’ ‘disastrous’ 2005 test failure, inquiry hears The president of Arconic has denied that it was “deliberate concealment” not to tell British regulators that its cladding product had burned in a test, the Grenfell inquiry has heard. Arconic president Claude […] Click here to view original…

But Arconic continued selling Reynobond PE panels in the UK until a week after the Grenfell Tower fire A manager at the manufacturer that sold combustible ACM panels to be used on the Grenfell Tower refurbishment warned colleagues two years before the fatal fire that the cladding was dangerous […] Click here to view original…

Welsh renters given stronger protections against Section 21 evictions Chartering a better future for residents Work with women who need flexibility, instead of making them fit a mould Senior BRE technician denies knowledge of secret fire-resisting boards in Grenfell insulation test Fire in housing association home kills two adults […] Click here to view original…