File photo dated 30/10/19 of the Grenfell Tower in west London. It would be “wrong and unfair” to pin the blame for the Grenfell Tower fire on the manufacturer of the building’s cladding panels, the company has told an inquiry into the 2017 WORK has finally begun to replace […]Click here to view original web…

Ash Barr and her husband Derek Blackburn The first legal case against a developer to fix fire safety defects in the scandal of unsafe homes is under way. About 40 leaseholders at Celestia in Cardiff Bay are suing Redrow to pay for the estimated £12 million of remediation works […] Click here to view original…

Optivo have upped the rent even though the building is still wrapped in cladding panels. A mother-of-four has had her rent increased by £600 a year, just months after being struck by an £85,000 bill for fire safety repair costs, writes Herbie Russell… In October, primary school teacher Emma […] Click here to view original…

(4) RESIDENTS at a Southampton tower block say they are being forced to pay £5,000 for cladding the building doesn’t legally need. A feud over costs has erupted between frustrated flat owners at Orchard Place and HLM Property Management. Ethan Taylor says that he and others living at the […] Click here to view original…

Experts at West Yorkshire-based law firm, John Howe & Co, are calling for more clarity on government plans to help people living with the nightmare of homes covered in unsafe cladding. The Government recently announced developers, rather than leaseholders, must pay to fix the cladding crisis. Its new four-point […] Click here to view original…

File photo dated 30/10/19 of the Grenfell Tower in west London. It would be “wrong and unfair” to pin the blame for the Grenfell Tower fire on the manufacturer of the building’s cladding panels, the company has told an inquiry into the 2017 WORK has finally begun to replace […] Click here to view original…

A block of flats in Southampton is covered in scaffolding as work takes place to replace unsafe cladding CAMPAIGNERS on behalf of householders facing huge bills for the replacement of inflammable cladding on their high-rise flats scored a tactical victory in the House of Lords last week with a […] Click here to view original…

Part of Salford Towers precinct after flammable cladding was removed in 2020. Hundreds of social housing tenants in nine Salford, Manchester are at their wits end, angered by a “scandalous” letter from property management telling them to stay warm despite delaying cladding work to the unit blocks for another […] Click here to view original…

Lydstep Flats in Llandaff North Work has finally begun to replace the cladding on council flats in Cardiff after more than three years of delays. Flammable cladding was found on Lydstep Flats in Llandaff North in March 2018 , following concerns about fire safety in the wake of the […] Click here to view original…

Work has finally begun to replace the cladding on council flats in Cardiff after more than three years of delays. Flammable cladding was found on Lydstep Flats in Llandaff North in March 2018 , following concerns about fire safety in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. Cardiff council […] Click here to view original…

Image caption, Dangerous cladding on Grenfell Tower in London led to 72 deaths Residents of high rise blocks covered in dangerous cladding have been condemned to “live like animals” during replacement works, MPs have been told. Up to five million people live in blocks with cladding similar to that […] Click here to view original…

Lydstep Flats, Cardiff. Photo via Google Alex Seabrook, local democracy reporter Work has finally begun to replace the cladding on council flats in Cardiff after more than three years of delays. Flammable cladding was found on Lydstep Flats in Llandaff North in March 2018, following concerns about fire safety […] Click here to view original…