Posts Tagged ‘Interview’
Remember Grenfell? Of course you do. Thousands of millennials are still living in flats surrounded by dangerous cladding and trapped in mortgage prisons as a result
It has been three years since the Grenfell tragedy which caused the deaths of 72 people in West London. The fire started in a fridge-freezer on the fourth floor of the 24 storey building and quickly spread throughout the whole of the tower block which housed 350 people. An […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreTearful caller “devastated” as her daughter’s home is branded unsellable due to cladding
This tearful caller was devastated at her daughter’s home being branded unsellable due to cladding, leaving her daughter “trapped” and “absolutely terrified.” On Monday, LBC found residents of a North London tower block have been told their flats are effectively worthless due to the building’s cladding being inadequate. After […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreBrumLAG Interview on BBC Radio WM
A campaign group in Birmingham says it’s worried there may be dozens of buildings in the city with cladding issues that aren’t being identified – that could leave flat owners seriously out of pocket.
Read MoreCladding Action Groups on Radio 4 You and Yours consumer affairs programme
Flat owners living lockdown in fear of fire and bankruptcy
Residents of the St George apartment building in Leeds Copyright: jpimedia First-time buyer Hayley Tillotson worked hard to achieve her ambition of owning her own home. The 28-year-old moved back in with her father for five years and saved until she had the deposit needed to buy her one-bedroom […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreBBC Midlands Today reports on Brindley House Insurance Costs Hike
The agony of life in lockdown in tower blocks with unsafe cladding
Thousands of people in our region are spending lockdown ‘trapped’ in tower blocks with unsafe cladding after the coronavirus outbreak meant that work to remove it was put on hold. Residents are having to pay hundreds of pounds a month for round-the-clock patrols in case the potentially flammable materials […] Click here to view original…
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 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.
Read MoreWATCH: Flat owner ‘anxious’ over growing cost of tower cladding repairs
Video Phil Maricic owns two flats in St Francis Tower and is unhappy about the state the building is in Picture: SARAH LUCY BROWN A 66-year-old left with a £50,000 bill for unsafe cladding on an Ipswich tower block has revealed the ordeal has made him “very anxious” about […] Click here to view original…
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