Apartment owners sound alarm over alleged building defects
Tamara and Andrew Railton-Stewart say their apartment had to be gutted and rebuilt. Buying an off-the-plan apartment has turned into an expensive, lengthy legal battle for Melbourne woman Tamara Railton-Stewart, and she is not alone. “I had no idea of the disaster of that decision,” Ms Railton-Stewart said. She […]Click here to view original web…
Contractor ordered to pay £8m legal bill for cladding defects
A housing association has won an £8m legal claim for cladding defects against construction firm Mulalley. The judge in the case condemned “endemic complacency” in the construction industry over cladding fitted prior to the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. Martlet Homes, part of Hyde Housing Group, brought the case […] Click here to view original…
High Court orders contractor to pay up and fix faulty cladding
Mulalley facing potential bill of £8m over dispute on Portsmouth towers A specialist housing contractor has been told to pay damages to the owner of a set of Portsmouth towers in the first High Court judgement on fire safety defects in high-rise cladding since the Grenfell Tower disaster. Housing […] Click here to view original…
Willmott Dixon rips into supply chain for ‘dodging’ £44m cladding repair bill
Firm’s chairman promises legal action and says resposibility for cost lies with external envelope specialist and consultants Willmott Dixon has promised to go after those firms it says are avoiding responsibility for footing the bill on cladding repair work on a mixed-use scheme which it says will cost it […] Click here to view original…
Morello Quarter Basildon residents bid to remove cladding
Combustible cladding – Morello Quarter RESIDENTS living in housing blocks wrapped in combustible cladding are fighting for government funding to replace the dangerous materials. The cladding on Basildon’s Morello Quarter was deemed a “high risk to life” after Essex Fire safety inspectors reviewed the building in the wake of […] Click here to view original…
Norton Rose Fulbright wins hugely significant cladding case
Global law firm Norton Rose Fulbright has won a hugely significant cladding case on behalf of its client, Martlet Homes Limited (Martlet), in what is the first High Court judgment on a claim concerning fire safety defects in cladding on a high rise building since the Grenfell Tower disaster […] Click here to view original…
Housing group’s £8m victory over cladding defects
Officials for Hyde Group said that defects were detected when the association commissioned a fire-risk assessment after the Grenfell disaster A housing association has won an £8 million claim over defective cladding in the first High Court case of its kind since the Grenfell Tower fire. In what was […] Click here to view original…
Cladding concern at Lanarkshire flats earmarked for Ukrainian refugees
Birkshaw Tower in Wishaw was to be knocked down but will now be repaired to provide homes for Ukrainian families Tower blocks earmarked for Ukrainian refugees seeking sanctuary in Scotland have potentially dangerous cladding. Two high-rise blocks in North Lanarkshire and a rented cruise ship are to house refugees, […] Click here to view original…
Developers given a month to sign cladding crisis contracts
Greg Clark, new Secretary of State for the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC), has told developers that they must sign formal contracts to remediate unsafe cladding within the next four weeks. As of mid-June, 47 developers had signed the pledge put before them by former Housing […] Click here to view original…
Cladding victims freed to sell up as banks agree to lend on crisis-hit flats
Cladding crisis Six of Britain’s biggest banks agreed to offer mortgages on buildings with fire safety defects, freeing owners trapped in previously unsellable homes. Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds, Nationwide, NatWest and Santander will lend on flats in blocks with cladding, on the condition the properties are entitled to funding to […] Click here to view original…
Housing Secretary Greg Clark to sign agreements to solve cladding crisis within a month
Exclusive Writing for i, the new Housing Secretary says major housebuilders have a four-week deadline to sign up to remediation work contracts Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Secretary Greg Clark in Downing Street (Photo: Toby Melville/Reuters) has sent out formal contracts to finalise pledges by major British housebuilders to […] Click here to view original…
Judge finds for client in landmark cladding case
1 hour Building firm Mulalley & Co has been successfully sued for £8m by a housing association over its use of a flammable cladding system in refurbishing tower blocks. It cost Martlet Homes £8m to replace the EWI cladding that Mulalley had installed in an earlier refurbishment Mulalley refurbished […] Click here to view original…