Cladding crisis: Norwegian wealth fund urged to pressure firms and builders
Image caption, Cladding being removed from a tower block in Manchester Campaigners have urged Norway’s giant state investment fund to pressure cladding firms and builders to fix fire safety issues. Grenfell survivors and leaseholders affected by the cladding crisis called on Norges Bank to pull £5.7bn of funds from […]Click here to view original web…
Tower block residents endure bitter conditions after cladding removed and not replaced
Eithne and Martin Crowson of Holm Court and Plane Court in Pendleton, Salford Hundreds of people claim they are living in bitter conditions in freezing high rise flats. Residents say the nine blocks look half-built and the windows protrude with numbers which are written in paint outside fats. And […] Click here to view original…
Norway’s wealth fund urged to pull £5.7bn from cladding firms
Norges Bank Investment Management’s Nicolai Tangen was based in the capital at the time of the Grenfell fire The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund should sell its £5.7 billion investments in companies that profited from dangerous homes in Britain if they do not compensate victims, according to Grenfell survivors […] Click here to view original…
“I sit in blankets and make the kids wrap up”: The freezing high rise flats where hundreds of people live in bitter conditions
In the cold: Eithne Crowson, 69. Holm Court and Plane Court in Pendleton, Salford You can’t take a trip to Salford Shopping Centre or the McDonald’s just off the Crescent without noticing Pendleton flats. The nine blocks look half-built. Windows are protruding. Floor numbers are written in paint on […] Click here to view original…
Norway’s wealth fund urged to pull £5.7bn from cladding firms
Norges Bank Investment Management’s Nicolai Tangen was based in the capital at the time of the Grenfell fire The world’s largest sovereign wealth fund should sell its £5.7 billion investments in companies that profited from dangerous homes in Britain if they do not compensate victims, according to Grenfell survivors […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis: ‘We are saddled with unsellable worthless homes’
Leaseholders in apartment blocks like Vizion in Milton Keynes hope they will not foot the bill for fire safety work Fire safety defects have been discovered in thousands of blocks of flats in England, following the 2017 Grenfell tower block fire , which killed 72 people. On Monday, Michael […] Click here to view original…
Half a million tenants left out of Tory cladding crisis plan over £2bn black hole
Michael Gove has made a compensation plan blunder More than half a million council tenants are caught in a £2 billion black hole in the Government’s cladding compensation plan. They have been left out of plans to lift the crippling cost of removing hazardous materials that is trapping leaseholders […] Click here to view original…
Council housing: Delayed project to replace cladding on Falkirk high-rise will go ahead
Falkirk Council revealed in September 2019 it was going to replace the cladding on Glenfuir Court at a cost of £1 million, while new smoke and heat detectors in all of the town’s high flats would be replaced in a £2 million project. The local authority had delayed the […] Click here to view original…
Premier League newcomers Brighton dismiss fears over Amex Stadium cladding
June 27 – Premier League newcomers have allayed fears over the safety of the Amex Stadium after it emerged the cladding for the stadium was produced by Reynobond, the manufacturer of the cladding used in the Grenfell Tower that was devastated by fire last week, claiming the lives of […] Click here to view original…
Cladding: Why is it unsafe and will flat owners be refunded?
Flat owners should not have to pay for dangerous cladding to be removed from their buildings, Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said. However, under new government plans, anyone who has already paid for it to be replaced won’t be refunded. What is the government doing about cladding? In a […] Click here to view original…
Vista Tower resident welcomes cladding funds but ‘still more to be done’
Cladding and fire safety campaigner from Stevenage, Sophie Bichener, has been in talks with MP Stephen McPartland – Credit: Courtesy of Sophie Bichener A Stevenage cladding campaigner has welcomed the news that developers will be forced to fix the national cladding scandal, but says there’s still a long road […] Click here to view original…
Bloomberg Westminster: Fixing Cladding Special
Bloomberg Westminster Podcast • Browse all episodes More than four years after the deadly Grenfell tower fire, Michael Gove has a new plan to raise 4 billion pounds from developers to replace dangerous cladding on low-rise blocks. Peter Bottomley, Conservative MP and co-chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group […] Click here to view original…