Practical implications of the Building Safety Act 2022
How does the Building Safety Act affect you? The Building Safety Act 2022 (Act) was brought in to try and tackle some of the fundamental safety issues brought to the fore by the Grenfell disaster, by allocating responsibility to deal with remedial works to make buildings safe (predominately, but […]Click here to view original web…
Eastbourne junior school could soon be rid of ‘non-fire compliant’ cladding
Stafford Junior School in Ringwood Road is part of the Cavendish Education Trust and caters to children aged seven-11. The application is for the existing timber cladding to be removed and replaced with a new Hardie Plank Cladding panel and fire improvement system. Plans say the current cladding is […] Click here to view original…
Cladding and fire safety updates – no get out of jail free cards available
Following 1) Martlet Homes Ltd v Mulalley &Co Ltd and 2) LDC (Portfolio One) Ltd v George Downing Construction Ltd and European Sheeting Ltd, the High Court has found in favour of allowing building owners to recover the costs of remedying defective or unsafe cladding, and for waking-watch costs. […] Click here to view original…
Williams accuses Greens of ‘resorting to desperate smear attack’
The Green Party’s one MP, Caroline Lucas, is due to visit Bristol on Thursday to support Patrick McAllister in the Hotwells & Harbourside by-election. It comes as the Lib Dem candidate for the ward, Stephen Williams, has accused the Greens of a smear campaign and employing “desperate tactics” as […] Click here to view original…
‘Waking watch’ patrol introduced at fire-threat block of flats
Team of fire safety exports will continually patrol a residential building in Glasgow. Play Video A “waking watch” patrol has been introduced at a block of flats in Glasgow after fire safety issues were identified. The measure will see a team of fire safety experts patrol the grounds and […] Click here to view original…
Dane House Sydenham owners having to pay £1k insurance for cladding
Dane House is on the Exeter Place development in Sydenham. CREDIT: Robert Firth South London families are having to fork out £1,000 per year on insurance for their homes because of fears cladding on their apartment block is dangerous. Residents of Dane House in Sydenham are paying £23,000 between […] Click here to view original…
Cladding mortgage hostages could finally be free
Homeowners have been unable to move from flats with flammable cladding Anyone living in a flat with cladding may find it easier to get a mortgage from this week after Britain’s largest banks agreed to lend on some high-rise blocks. Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Nationwide Building Society, NatWest and Santander […] Click here to view original…
Work on ‘unsafe’ buildings in Basingstoke at ‘advanced stage’
Basingstoke MP welcomes government announcement on ‘unsafe’ buildings BASINGSTOKE’S MP is supporting the government’s announcement that housing developers should be legally contracted to fix unsafe buildings. The latest government announcement on unsafe housing confirms that it will be developers – and not the taxpayer – who will be obliged […] Click here to view original…
Ear-splitting noise on estate as residents are offered headphones to cope
The Chalcots estate CHALCOTS tenants are being told to wear noise-cancelling headphones to cope with a new six-week programme of “very noisy work”. Letters to people living in the tower block estate in Adelaide Road, Belsize Park, warn of “the breaking of concrete and drilling into the floor and […] Click here to view original…
Slough Council won’t borrow money to add to its £760m debt
Slough Borough Council A DEBT-RIDDEN council won’t be borrowing this year despite increased costs to replace Grenfell-like cladding at two apartment blocks. Finance chiefs from Slough Borough Council (SBC) have said there will be no external loans to fund its down-scaled five-year capital programme, which has a budget to […] Click here to view original…
The story explained: new lending rules for homes with cladding
Banks are willing to lend on flats with dangerous cladding for the first time since the crisis snowballed. Does this mark the beginning of the end of the building safety crisis or another false dawn? Peter Apps explains Picture: Hiran Perera Sharelines Banks are willing to lend on flats […] Click here to view original…
Loopholes let developers off the hook on fire-risk flats
Michael Gove’s action against developers hasn’t stopped them from contesting the scope of the repairs needed — meanwhile, leaseholders are taking matters into their own hands Laura Cusack, right, and neighbour Gemma Anglesea So desperate was Laura Cusack to get rid of the flammable cladding around her one-bedroom flat […] Click here to view original…