Sandra Cassels: Cladding in Scotland
Sandra Cassels Sandra Cassels provides an overview of the approach to cladding in Scotland and addresses three discrete points: b uilding Regulations, RICS Guidance and r ights of recourse for owners/government assistance. Building Regulations The fatal Garnock Court tower block fire in 1999 contributed to the building standards system […]Click here to view original web…
Sandra Cassels: Cladding in Scotland
Sandra Cassels Sandra Cassels provides an overview of the approach to cladding in Scotland and addresses three discrete points: b uilding Regulations, RICS Guidance and r ights of recourse for owners/government assistance. Building Regulations The fatal Garnock Court tower block fire in 1999 contributed to the building standards system […] Click here to view original…
Government ‘failed to publish report on Grenfell-style cladding 20 years ago’
(PA) (PA Wire) The Government failed to publish reports stating that Grenfell-style cladding was unsafe for use on high-rise buildings 15 years before the fatal fire, an inquiry has heard. Former government official Anthony Burd has admitted two September 2002 reports, which outlined how “aluminium rainscreen panels with a […] Click here to view original…
Freezing residents in blocks of flats without cladding told ‘wear a hat and gloves’ and ‘don’t drink alcohol’ to keep warm
Pendleton residents arrived at the meeting armed with a letter telling them to wear hats and gloves to keep warm Social housing tenants in Salford, who have suffered freezing conditions since flammable cladding came off their blocks, were sent a ‘scandalous’ letter in December advising them to ‘wear a […] Click here to view original…
Michael Gove says foreign firms duck cost of cladding crisis
Gove has threatened to punish developers that refuse to comply by forcing them out of the housing market Michael Gove has admitted that “egregious” cladding companies have found it easier to avoid paying for the costs of fixing the post-Grenfell building safety crisis because many of them are based […] Click here to view original…
Government ‘failed to publish report on Grenfell-style cladding 20 years ago’
The Government failed to publish reports stating that Grenfell-style cladding was unsafe for use on high-rise buildings 15 years before the fatal fire, an inquiry has heard. Former government official Anthony Burd has admitted two September 2002 reports, which outlined how “aluminium rainscreen panels with a polyethylene core” did […] Click here to view original…
Government ‘failed to publish report on Grenfell-style cladding 20 years ago’
The Government failed to publish reports stating that Grenfell-style cladding was unsafe for use on high-rise buildings 15 years before the fatal fire, an inquiry has heard. Former government official Anthony Burd has admitted two September 2002 reports, which outlined how “aluminium rainscreen panels with a polyethylene core” did […] Click here to view original…
Hundreds express interest in Welsh government scheme to fund fire safety surveys
Sector needs £34bn to fund 95,000-per-year shortfall in affordable homes, new research reveals Former official ‘can see why people would think’ government covered up risk of dangerous cladding for 16 years Two London councils picked as first partners in £100m airspace development fund House builders submit counter proposals to […] Click here to view original…
Home-owners caught in cladding crisis claim Scots ministers have done nothing
Ria Lewis outside her flat in Colonsay View, Edinburgh. Lewis is unable to sell as the flat is said to have unsafe cladding needing to be replaced A pilot scheme to assess the extent of the cladding crisis in Scotland has yet to complete a single survey, six months […] Click here to view original…
Insurance costs triple despite cladding safety works at Pym Court
Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner met residents at Pym Court to discuss the ‘rapidly escalating’ building insurance costs faced following the completion of post-Grenfell fire safety remedial work. Pym Court resident Seema Sharma with Cambridge MP Daniel Zeichner at the site. Picture: Keith Heppell Rules brought in after the Grenfell […] Click here to view original…
Exclusive: Boris Johnson’s ‘zombie government’ is failing to respond to crucial select committee inquiries
The Government has failed to offer a response to at least 13 separate inquiries, with delays of more than six months on major issues such as cladding, English devolution and mental health in prisons. Experts say it is a ‘real problem’ for the Government to respond several months late […] Click here to view original…
Mayor of London rejects ‘support hub’ for cladding crisis residents
Blow for hundreds of Enfield residents affected by building safety crisis, reports Joe Talora, Local Democracy Reporter, and James Cracknell Cladding on a hotel in Edmonton Sadiq Khan has overturned a decision made in the London Assembly to include funding for a building safety crisis support hub in his […] Click here to view original…