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The financial lifeline was thrown to them by the Chancellor in his March Budget but it will be withdrawn at the end of July. There is speculation that freeholders – those who own the building – are not rushing for a share of the money because the flat owners […] Click here to view original…

This Guidance Note has been prepared by a Special Interest Group(SIG), comprising representatives of FIA member companies, other invited experts in the practice of fire risk assessment in housing premises, and an observer from the National Fire Chiefs Council.Members of the SIG represent companies that carry out, in total, […] Click here to view original…

Manchester leaseholders have launched a legal challenge against the government after they were blocked from the £1bn Building Safety Fund because they had already committed money to remediate dangerous cladding, Inside Housing can reveal. The Skyline Central building in Manchester Sharelines In pre-action protocol letter sent to housing secretary […] Click here to view original…

A couple from Southampton say they’re struggling with their mental health – because of where they live. Natasha Letchford and Jake Ellis are in a high rise block – in a building with unsafe cladding. They say the risk of fire, and the fact the cladding hasn’t been replaced, […] Click here to view original…

Ahead of the third anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire there are still 2,000 high risk residential buildings with some form of dangerous cladding. The consequences for home owners have been devastating, with properties becoming unmortgageable and unsellable. Many residents continue to pay hundreds of pounds a month for […] Click here to view original…

How is it the case that almost 2,000 tall buildings and thousands of medium rises all around the country still have dangerous cladding, three years after Grenfell? Peter Apps asks what has gone wrong with the government’s efforts to fix the crisis Picture: Alamy If you could have told […] Click here to view original…

Following the announcement by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, of changes to the Approved Document B to extend the provision of sprinklers in new residential buildings over 11m in height, James Dalton, Director of General Insurance Policy, commented; “We welcome the Government’s update to Approved Document […] Click here to view original…

Some construction firms still can’t be trusted to make buildings that are safe from fire, the National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) has warned. Its safety head Nick Coombe said some building firms had barely improved since the Grenfell disaster in 2017. The Federation of Master Builders, which represents small […] Click here to view original…

Jack Simpson talks to four leaseholders about the trauma of living in a home that they know is unsafe because of its dangerous cladding The leaseholder who turned to self-harm It was 2008 when Alice (not her real name) bought her shared ownership flat at L&Q’s Stratford Eye Estate. […] Click here to view original…