Posts Tagged ‘BrumLAG’
Commons nods through Fire Safety Bill, amid plenty of grumbling by veteran MPs from all parties
Sir Mike Penning, Tory MP for Hemel Hempstead and a former fire minister, fumed at the Fire Safety Bill’s implications for leaseholders, who “should not have the burden, which is currently on them all the time, day in, day out” By Harry Scoffin The first new law on fire […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreResidents in city’s tallest tower block face massive bills over cladding
Brindley House in Newhall Street Birmingham Birmingham’s tallest residential tower block faces a staggering 775 per cent insurance increase. The massive hike at Brindley House – the biggest increase in Birmingham – has been spawned by cladding regulations that followed the Grenfell Tower blaze. The rapid spread of the […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreUPDATES ON BUILDING SAFETY REFORMS – Letter to MPs from Robert Jenrick
Islington Gates on Radio 4 You and Yours consumer affairs programme
Full programme https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000gsld
Read MoreBrumLAG 5 weeks in …
Our last blog post at the beginning of the month was titled “1 week in …”. We had hoped to do a weekly post but things have been happening so fast 4 weeks have got behind us already! Back on the 4th Sophie and Brian recorded a podcast over a few glasses of wine and…
Read MoreCladding insurance may force out residents of tower blocks
Katie Illingworth and her husband, Jim, face having to spend their pension savings on cladding Residents at a Birmingham tower block with flammable cladding must each pay an insurance bill that has quadrupled to £191,000 by next week or move out. Across England, leaseholders in flats with combustible external […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreBirmingham leaseholders facing first cladding bill
LEASEHOLDERS IN the Islington Gates development in central Birmingham still have to pay between £7,000 and £19,000 cladding removal bills, despite many losing jobs in the COVID-19 outbreak. Earlier this month , over 140 leaseholders in Islington Gates were given bills of up to £100,000 to be paid in […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreLeaseholders face £19,000 cladding bills next month amid coronavirus crisis
Leaseholders living in a block in Birmingham, who are already facing financial hardship due to coronavirus, must pay up to £19,000 in just two weeks or risk being forced out of their homes. Islington Gates residents have been given bills of up to £19,000 (picture: Google Street View) Sharelines […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreTalk Radio Interview – Sophie and Phil from BrumLAG
Sophie and Phil from BrumLAG on Talk Radio talking about the the cladding scandal and COVID-19 on Talk Radio.
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