Six big UK banks to start lending on flats with cladding
Ae tower block in Salford that had exterior cladding removed in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. Six of the UK’s largest banks will start lending on medium and high-rise flats with cladding from January, in a move that could help thousands of people stuck in properties they […]Click here to view original web…
Reprieve for trapped homeowners as Britain’s biggest mortgage lender scraps cladding rules
Hundreds of thousands of homeowners trapped in buildings with cladding may now be able to sell their properties after Britain’s largest mortgage provider scrapped its ban on lending. Lloyds has removed its requirement for blocks of flats that are five floors or taller to have an EWS1 certificate, a […] Click here to view original…
Reprieve for trapped homeowners as Britain’s biggest mortgage lender scraps cladding rules
Cladding crisis Hundreds of thousands of homeowners trapped in buildings with cladding may now be able to sell their properties after Britain’s largest mortgage provider scrapped its ban on lending. Lloyds has removed its requirement for blocks of flats that are five floors or taller to have an EWS1 […] Click here to view original…
Tower block dwellers feeling like prisoners in own homes with no end in sight to scaffold hell
By Adrian Zorzut, Local Democracy Service Families in a west London tower block say they are living through hell as they have to listen to round-the-clock drilling that sounds like a rock concert. Tenants on the North Kensington estate also claim construction workers peer into their homes and leave […] Click here to view original…
Ipswich Cardinal Lofts residents may be out for a year
The top three floors of Cardinal Lofts in Ipswich were evacuated on 15 November Residents forced to leave their waterfront homes due to fire-risk at their tower block have been told they may not be able to return for a year. The top three floors of Cardinal Lofts in […] Click here to view original…
Council want to bypass administrator to fast track costly cladding work
NEW arrangements could be made to fast track the completion of the much-delayed defective cladding replacement of two Poole tower blocks Custom made cladding panels ordered for the residential Sterte Court complex are held up after the materials’ fabricator, H&H Architectural Systems, entered insolvency in mid-October before the final […] Click here to view original…
BCP Council pledge to complete Sterte Court cladding work
NEW arrangements could be made to fast track the completion of the much-delayed defective cladding replacement of two Poole tower blocks Custom made cladding panels ordered for the residential Sterte Court complex are held up after the materials’ fabricator, H&H Architectural Systems, entered insolvency in mid-October before the final […] Click here to view original…
Residents of Wicker Riverside flats in Sheffield have to move out for a second time over fire safety fears
Residents in a Sheffield flats building will have to move out next month for the second time in three years because of fire safety fears. South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue (SYFR) said that fire safety inspecting officers have served a prohibition notice on Wicker Riverside because previously identified issues […] Click here to view original…
Sheffield: Wicker Riverside flats still unsafe, says fire chief
Fire safety concerns at Wicker Riverside have not been resolved Residents of a block of flats in Sheffield will be forced to move out over fire safety fears for second time in less than three years. South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue (SYFR) has served a prohibition notice on Wicker […] Click here to view original…
Sheffield: Wicker Riverside flats still unsafe, says fire chief
Fire safety concerns at Wicker Riverside have not been resolved Residents of a block of flats in Sheffield will be forced to move out over fire safety fears for second time in less than three years. South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue (SYFR) has served a prohibition notice on Wicker […] Click here to view original…
Homeowners trapped in Grenfell-style flats will be able to sell ‘within weeks’
Banks are preparing to unlock mortgage lending for flats with unsafe cladding in “six to 12 weeks” as they expect a breakthrough over the issue of who funds repair work, The Telegraph can reveal. Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders trapped in homes that have effectively become unmortgageable in the […] Click here to view original…
Defect-riddled apartments covered in mould could be write-offs as repair costs mount
Black mould has inundated this Clayton apartment block. Black mould is being uncovered in the walls of defective apartment blocks, in what experts describe as an “absolute catastrophe”. Workers have laid bare wall cavities riddled with black mould and rotten timber in poorly constructed apartment buildings that have been […] Click here to view original…