Cladding crisis: £5bn pot to make buildings safe has funded just 12 cladding removals
Work has only started at 90 sites with just 12 completed, figures show A £5 billion fund set up to finance the removal of dangerous cladding from thousands of tower blocks has paid for only 12 buildings to be made safe, latest figures have revealed. The pot of taxpayer […]Click here to view original web…
‘Grenfell’ cladding will not be removed from tower blocks until 2025
The target of removing Grenfell-style cladding from tower blocks is set to be missed by more than half a decade. The Government wanted the work completed by the end of 2019 for social housing and by June 2020 for private properties. However research by the Labour Party shows that […] Click here to view original…
High-rise tower block inspections in Sheffield completed by fire service in Government-backed project
A team of inspectors made up of staff from South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue’s safety department, assessed 298 buildings in the county, with 288 of them being in Sheffield. Simon Dunker, Area Manager at South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue, said: “When the team set out on this project, we […] Click here to view original…
‘There’s no magic bullet’: Westminster government won’t follow Wales in buying cladding homes
The Polluter Pays Bill has been developed by residents to offer a mechanism that will make property developers pay to fix unsafe housing they developed. Image: Reece Lipman The Westminster government will not follow in the footsteps of Welsh leaders by buying homes affected by dangerous cladding and fire […] Click here to view original…
Welsh proposal to purchase cladded properties not workable in England – Greenhalgh
A Welsh government scheme to purchase properties from leaseholders who are unable to sell their properties due to cladding issues will not work in England as the scale of the problem is different, a House of Lords member has said. Speaking in a House of Lords debate about building […] Click here to view original…
Only one in eight high rise blocks pass fire safety checks in South Yorkshire
Residents of Wicker Riverside in Sheffield were evacuated in December 2020 after a fire inspection deemed their building unsafe Just one in eight high rise blocks have passed fire safety checks in South Yorkshire after inspections carried out in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster. It comes after […] Click here to view original…
McLaren scoops £77m Chalcots recladding job
Chalcots Estate in Camden. Photo credit: Julian Osley, Geograph McLaren will lead the delayed recladding job on the Chalcots Estate in London. The contractor took the £77.2m job to fit new cladding to four of the estate’s five housing blocks, after Camden Council awarded the recladding of the fifth […] Click here to view original…
Report highlights impacts of building safety crisis on mental health of leaseholders
A new study has revealed the impacts on the mental health of leaseholders who are stuck in their flats and face huge costs for remediation of unsafe cladding or other building safety defects. Ron Alalouff shares the results of the study, and examines the impact of the crisis on […] Click here to view original…
McLaren scoops £77m Chalcots recladding job
Chalcots Estate in Camden. Photo credit: Julian Osley, Geograph McLaren will lead the delayed recladding job on the Chalcots Estate in London. The contractor took the £77.2m job to fit new cladding to four of the estate’s five housing blocks, after Camden Council awarded the recladding of the fifth […] Click here to view original…
‘Grenfell’ cladding will not be removed from tower blocks until 2025
The target of removing Grenfell-style cladding from tower blocks is set to be missed by more than half a decade. The Government wanted the work completed by the end of 2019 for social housing and by June 2020 for private properties. However research by the Labour Party shows that […] Click here to view original…
‘Grenfell’ cladding will not be removed from tower blocks until 2025: Government is set to miss repairs target by more than half a DECADE, research shows
The target of removing Grenfell-style cladding from tower blocks is set to be missed by more than half a decade. The Government wanted the work completed by the end of 2019 for social housing and by June 2020 for private properties. However research by the Labour Party shows that […] Click here to view original…
Review of year: The most read stories of 2021
1) In January it was claimed that Guy’s hospital vaccinated ‘ineligible’ people who chanced it and ‘phoned up booking line’. Guy’s Hospital READ FULL STORY 2) In February a Bermondsey family caught up in the cladding scandal told the News they had become reliant on food banks and Universal […] Click here to view original…