Cladding: Minister orders probe into ‘crippling’ insurance costs for residents
Communities Secretary Michael Gove has said the insurance market is not working properly for residents stuck in buildings with unsafe cladding, and many have seen their premiums double in just a year (Aaron Chown/PA) The insurance market is not working properly for residents stuck in buildings with unsafe cladding, […]Click here to view original web…
Support for cladding victims in the offing
A protest banner hanging from Peckham’s Cooperative House, an L&Q block affected by cladding Cladding victims may get access to a specialist support service, following an amendment to the Mayor’s budget on Wednesday. The Building Safety Support Hub would offer expert help to those impacted by Southwark’s building-safety-crisis regarding […] Click here to view original…
Gove requests review of spiralling insurance for flats with unsafe cladding
A review of the “crippling” insurance costs faced by residents in some buildings with unsafe cladding is to be undertaken by a watchdog, at the request of the government. Michael Gove, the communities minister, has asked the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to establish within six months why insurance premiums […] Click here to view original…
Cladding: government announces waking watch replacement fund
The government has announced new funding to allow for the removal of costly Waking Watch patrols currently being used in place of fire-safety measures in high-risk buildings amidst the cladding crisis. The £27 million funding will pay for the installation of fire alarm systems in buildings of all heights, […] Click here to view original…
The cladding crisis: Government sets out new plan to protect leaseholders
On 10th January 2022, the government revised its approach to building safety with a bold new plan to protect leaseholders and make developers and companies pay to fix the cladding crisis stemming from the Grenfell tower disaster. With the significant impact these changes could have on both developers and […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell Tower Inquiry: “Those who created and enabled deserve most blame” asserts Fire Brigades Union
THE GRENFELL Tower disaster was caused by “individual private companies which were allowed to put profit before people”, while the tragedy “represents the culmination of a generation of central Government policies including deregulation and the ‘war’ on the culture of Health and Safety, privatisation, fragmentation, austerity and the degradation […] Click here to view original…
Amendments to cladding pleading permitted by Court of Appeal
On Monday of this week, the Court of Appeal handed down its decision in Mulalley & Co. Ltd v Martlet Homes Ltd upholding the first instance decision of Pepperall J, that the Respondent be granted permission to amend its Particulars of Claim out of time pursuant to CPR 17.4(2). […] Click here to view original…
The Grays tower block residents who want their old cladding back
Image caption, Six council-owned tower blocks in Thurrock had cladding removed last year Housing providers up and down the country have been removing potentially dangerous cladding in the aftermath of the Grenfell disaster which left 72 people dead. But in the Essex town of Grays, some residents in a […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis: London Assembly votes to introduce Building Safety Crisis support hub
Londoners affected by the building safety crisis are to receive additional support following an amendment to the Mayor of London’s draft GLA budget for the upcoming financial year. On Wednesday afternoon, members of the London Assembly agreed a formal amendment to the mayor’s draft budget that called for the […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell Tower Inquiry Diary Week 61: ‘Mistakes are meant for learning, not repeating’
‘This is going to go badly pear-shaped’: what will PAS 9980 mean for the building safety crisis? Residents successfully challenge waking watch notice in ‘first of its kind’ judgement Grenfell survivors call for ‘duty of candour’ and national body to oversee inquiry response January 2022 digital edition of Inside […] Click here to view original…
My kids have to wear dressing gowns, woolly hats and mittens all day to keep warm in our freezing flat
MUMS are putting kids in dressing gowns, mittens, and woolly hats to stay warm after cladding was removed from their tower block. Families say energy bills have soared and now they can’t afford to turn the heating up past 11C and rarely switch on the lights. Jane is forced […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell Tower Inquiry Diary Week 61: ‘Mistakes are meant for learning, not repeating’
‘This is going to go badly pear-shaped’: what will PAS 9980 mean for the building safety crisis? Residents successfully challenge waking watch notice in ‘first of its kind’ judgement Grenfell survivors call for ‘duty of candour’ and national body to oversee inquiry response January 2022 digital edition of Inside […] Click here to view original…