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A Kuwaiti property company has been ordered to remove dangerous cladding and fix fire safety issues at a Paddington residential block within 19 months. Behbehani Middle East Trading Company must complete extensive remediation works at 5 Praed Street by October 2026, following action by Westminster City Council at a […] Click here to view original…

Flats in buildings with cladding usually need a fire safety form before they can get a mortgage Thousands of homeowners living in blocks of flats may not be able to sell their homes because of problems at the company that issued their crucial fire safety forms. The fire engineering […] Click here to view original…

Stephen Squires has felt unsafe in his flat for the last four years and has no option but to stay. A resident of Britton House in the Green Quarter, Stephen was told during the pandemic that his building would require £3 million of remediation works to remove flammable cladding. […] Click here to view original…

The building is a short walk from Edgware Road and has a Pret A Manger located next door A judge has ordered works to be completed on a Paddington residential block with combustible cladding within 19 months, after the council took the landlord to tribunal over how long it […] Click here to view original…

The high-rise apartment building at 29 Hunter Street in Parramatta is clad in combustible materials. The owners of apartments inside a troubled high-rise in Western Sydney are on the brink of ruin, unable to cover an $18 million bill to replace the building’s highly flammable and potentially deadly cladding. […] Click here to view original…

Dr Al Pinkerton, MP for Surrey Heath cladding Many properties in London which had their cladding assessed for fire risk have become very difficult to sell and are ‘unmortgageable’ after EWS1 forms were filled in incorrectly, Dr Al Pinkerton MP (pictured) has claimed. The EWS1 form (External Wall Fire […] Click here to view original…

ITV News Meridian’s Fabiana Iantosca spoke to Kate Bean about her concerns A woman living in a Southampton flat which has been identified as having potentially dangerous cladding on the outside says it is a “nightmare”. Kate Bean bought her flat at Oceana Boulevard when she retired nine years […] Click here to view original…

Mark Elwell, managing director of Summit Environmental and an authority on asbestos, fire and legionella safety and risk management, outlines the critical responsibilities landlords face in 2025 and beyond. Grabbing the headlines and leaseholders’ energies in 2025 will be the enforcement of the Building Safety Act 2022 (The Act), […] Click here to view original…

Pemberley Place (Image: Google Street View) A RESIDENT has said they are “terrified” after finding out fire marshals will no longer operate in a block of flats which was previously found to contain combustible cladding. Ryan, who lives in Pemberley Place, Priestly Road, told the Gazette that “it came […] Click here to view original…

3 Work has begun to remove flammable cladding from a High Street block after flames tore through a top-floor flat. Hundreds were evacuated in August last year when a fire broke out in one of the upper flats at Mosaic Apartment in Slough. Residents shared how their lives had […] Click here to view original…