Three in five buildings with dangerous cladding have yet to be identified, warns watchdog
Some unsafe buildings may never be identified, National Audit Office says Three in five buildings with dangerous cladding have yet to be identified, according to a report by the National Audit Office. The watchdog said that the Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government (MHCLG) had estimated that cladding […]Click here to view original web…
Watchdog urges deadline to make buildings covered in dangerous cladding safe
(Image: PA Wire/PA Images) A target date must be set for work costing billions to make thousands of buildings covered in dangerous cladding safe, Whitehall’s spending watchdog has said. Up to 7,229 buildings across England are yet to be identified and some might never be, the National Audit Office […] Click here to view original…
Chair comment on the NAO’s report on Dangerous cladding: the Government’s remediation portfolio
Image representing news article Florence Eshalomi, Chair of the Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) Committee, has commented on the publication today of the National Audit Office’s report on Dangerous cladding: the Government’s remediation portfolio. Dangerous cladding: the Government’s remediation portfolio Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee Chair comment […] Click here to view original…
Cladding deadline needed to get removal work done, Audit Office says
Grenfell Tower memorial A deadline needs to be set for the completion of repairs to dangerous cladding on apartment blocks to speed up the process, according to the National Audit Office. Almost two-thirds of between 9-12,000 buildings that need dangerous cladding removed have yet to be identified with many […] Click here to view original…
Birmingham resident feels he won’t be alive to see dangerous cladding removed
It comes as the National Audit Office report has revealed some may never see the cladding removed from their building King Edwards Wharf, another apartment block with dangerous cladding in Birmingham A Birmingham man said that he does not believe he will ever see dangerous cladding removed from his […] Click here to view original…
Cladding replacement set to drag on until 2035
6 hours Seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed the scandal of unsafe cladding systems on buildings across the UK, the country has still not got a grip on the problem. Grenfell Tower’s cladding system accelerated the spread of fire and smoke when a fire broke out in […] Click here to view original…
Lethal Grenfell-Style Cladding Could Remain on Buildings for Another 16 Years and Cost Tens of Billions More Pounds to Remove
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Ending post-Grenfell cladding crisis could take until 2035 and beyond: ‘Unacceptably slow’
It could be two decades after the Grenfell disaster before the crisis the fire uncovered is finally fixed. Image: ChiralJon / Flickr The Labour government has been urged to set a target date to end the post-Grenfell building safety crisis amid warnings that it could take almost two decades […] Click here to view original…
Spending watchdog urges government to publish target date for completing building safety remediation
news Publishing a target date for the completion of dangerous cladding remediation works and providing greater transparency on remediation performance are two key recommendations from a new National Audit Office (NAO) report. In its first report on the government’s remediation programme since five separate programmes were brought together into […] Click here to view original…
England only 12-16% the way through its cladding replacement programme, NAO warns
Seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed the reality of dangerous cladding across the UK, hundreds of thousands of residents in England still have no idea when their building will be made safe, the National Audit Office (NAO) has warned today. Describing the remediation for buildings within government’s […] Click here to view original…
Response to NAO report on cladding remediation
There is widespread coverage today of a report from the National Audit Office which calls on the government to speed up the pace of remediation on buildings with dangerous cladding and set a date for its completion. More than seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire, the pace of […] Click here to view original…
60% of buildings with dangerous cladding still not identified seven years after Grenfell
The inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire found all 72 deaths were “avoidable”. (Photo: Henry Nicholls/AFP/ Getty) author avatar image Ministers face mounting pressure to speed up efforts to remove dangerous cladding from buildings after a fresh report warned that 60 per cent of buildings with hazardous cladding materials […] Click here to view original…