Posts Tagged ‘Parliament’
Combustible cladding survey highlights ongoing issues in multi-occupancy buildings
THE HOUSING, Communities and Local Government Committee in Parliament has published the findings of a survey into the progress of remediation work designed to improve fire safety in residential buildings. The survey highlights significant ongoing fire safety issues in multi-occupancy buildings across the country, leaving residents facing bills of […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreParliamentary report exposes widespread fire-safety failings three years on from Grenfell Tower inferno
Three years on from the deadly Grenfell Tower fire, around 2,000 high-rise residential or publicly owned buildings are still covered with dangerous cladding, says a cross-party parliamentary report. Titled “Cladding: Progress of Remediation,” the report by Parliament’s Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) committee exposes the deadly conditions still […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreUnion slams deadly fire failings and cuts
Marking Firefighters Memorial Day last week (Pic: Mark Thomas and FBU) Firefighters have attacked the government and building owners as a parliamentary committee’s cladding survey highlighted widespread safety failings. The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee last week published the findings of a survey into the progress of work […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreCommons 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 MoreNorthwich MP Mike Amesbury makes virtual Parliament appearance
Mike Amesbury makes his first appearance in the Commons via video link NORTHWICH MP Mike Amesbury used his first virtual appearance in the new ‘hybrid parliament’ to grill ministers about potentially lethal Grenfell-style cladding on homes. Due to social distancing measures, the House of Commons is operating with a […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreFatcat developers created our housing crisis. Here’s how to stop them
If you want to see who influences the government, you can do worse than look at Whitehall’s neighbours. In a grand Victorian building opposite the House of Commons in Parliament Square stands the headquarters of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . With a history dating back to 1792, […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreShabana writes to FCA on cladding insurance response
Shabana has been supporting those affected by the cladding scandal in Parliament. Shabana has written again to the Financial Conduct Authority on the cladding scandal, after a disappointing response to her letter calling for an investigation into the conduct of insurers. In March, Shabana wrote to the Financial Conduct […] 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 MoreGovernment allocate £1bn to remove all types of dangerous cladding with New Building Safety Fund
The new Building Safety Fund injects new funds to solve an old problem, will it be enough? In Rishi Sunak’s first Budget speech, he announced that the Government would be introducing a new Building Safety Fund of £1bn to help cover the costs of removing all types of unsafe […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreCladding: progress on remediation
The Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee has launched a new inquiry, Cladding: Progress of Remediation. The inquiry will review progress in removing potentially dangerous cladding from high-rise and high-risk buildings, and the adequacy of funding by the Government. The Committee will shortly publish a survey seeking evidence from […] Click here to view original…
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