Autumn Budget 2024: £1bn announced for cladding remediation and £3.4bn for Warm Homes Plan
The chancellor has announced billions of pounds in new funding for cladding remediation and the government’s Warm Homes Plan. Chancellor Rachel Reeves ahead of her 2024 Autumn Budget speech (picture: Alamy) Sharelines Autumn Budget 2024: £1bn announced for cladding remediation and £3.4bn for Warm Homes Plan #UKhousing Speaking in […]Click here to view original web…
Building Safety Remediation: monthly data release – September 2024
Contents Headlines Introduction Enquiries Building Safety overview Overall remediation progress ACM Remediation Building Safety Fund Cladding Safety Scheme Developer-Led Remediation Social Housing Sector Enforcement Accompanying dashboard Accompanying tables Related statistics Date of next publication: 9.30am on Thursday 21 November 2024 All figures in this release can also be found […] Click here to view original…
Reassuring residents’ concerns over recladding works
Liam Blears, head of facades at passive fire specialist FSi Promat, discusses the need to build the reassurance of residents into recladding projects that are vital to address the risk of fire With the launch of the Cladding Safety Scheme (CSS) in July last year, thousands of mid-rise buildings […] Click here to view original…
Work to remove cladding from Pemberley Place approved
Pemberley Place in Priestley Road (Image: Google Maps) WORK to remove potentially dangerous cladding covering a high-rise building in Rooksdown has been given the go-ahead by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council. Pemberley Place, in Priestley Road, was found to contain combustible insulation after a storm exposed parts of the […] Click here to view original…
Work to remove cladding from Pemberley Place approved
Pemberley Place in Priestley Road (Image: Google Maps) WORK to remove potentially dangerous cladding covering a high-rise building in Rooksdown has been given the go-ahead by Basingstoke and Deane Borough Council. Pemberley Place, in Priestley Road, was found to contain combustible insulation after a storm exposed parts of the […] Click here to view original…
Cladding firm M Price felled by post-Grenfell defects claim
The Enfield-based contractor was already struggling after Covid loan repayments and soaring costs on fixed-price contracts. The 143-year-old group made and installed aluminium windows and curtain walling elements for high-rise buildings. The price of base materials, which typically represents 50% to 70% of the total costs of a project, […] Click here to view original…
Work starts to remove cladding from Crown Heights high rise
Crown Heights (Image: Lola Crossman) WORK has started to remove potentially dangerous cladding from Crown Heights, although residents may not see big changes immediately. Barratt, the original developers of the building in Alencon Link, confirmed that remedial works started on Monday, September 30, to remove the cladding. The cladding […] Click here to view original…
Sundowner residents left without insulation for nine months
Sundowner resident, Richard Betts (Image: NQ) Residents of a luxury block of flats in Southampton have been left freezing in their own homes after it was stripped of its insulation ten months ago. The Sundowner building in Ocean Village was stripped of its cladding in January as part of […] Click here to view original…
Sundowner residents left without insulation for nine months
Sundowner resident, Richard Betts (Image: NQ) Residents of a luxury block of flats in Southampton have been left freezing in their own homes after it was stripped of its insulation ten months ago. The Sundowner building in Ocean Village was stripped of its cladding in January as part of […] Click here to view original…
‘Welcome to hell’: Dangerous cladding has left families homeless or stuck seven years after Grenfell
ITV News’ Social Affairs Correspondent Sarah Corker speaks with families affected by living in homes with flammable cladding. Thousands of people have been left homeless or stuck in unsafe buildings, with some facing financial ruin, after serious cladding defects on buildings across the country were exposed following the Grenfell […] Click here to view original…
Northpoint Bromley flats built with unsafe cladding
The Department for Housing said it sympathises with residents of this building who had Grenfell-style cladding wrapped around it (credit: Kiro Evans) Leaseholders living in a Bromley block have asked for council tax refunds from the authority after their flats were approved to be built with cladding that was […] Click here to view original…
Bromley leaseholders ask for council tax refunds after Grenfell cladding found
Remediation works on the building were reportedly completed last month Leaseholders living in a Bromley block have asked for council tax refunds from the authority after their flats were approved to be built with cladding that was later found to be unsafe. Residents of Northpoint, a 10-storey block of […] Click here to view original…