Many leaseholders have been told they will have to foot the bill for the remedial works to make their homes safe A protest banner hanging from Peckham’s Cooperative House, an L&Q block affected by cladding Is your home actually fire safe? This has been the frightening question for so […]Click here to view original web…

Most read in fire safety 2021 has been a year of growth and recovery as we all learn to adapt to a ‘new-normal’, both in our personal and professional lives. Throughout the year, industry professionals have continued to perform key work to ensure buildings and occupants are as safe […] Click here to view original…

Campaigners also hit out at the government’s ‘deeply offensive’ apology (Picture: PA/Getty) Bereaved families and survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire have slammed former prime minister David Cameron for refusing to say if he’d attend a crucial public inquiry into the tragedy. Module six in phase two of the […] Click here to view original…

‘Leaseholders are being exhorted left, right and centre’ (Getty Images/iStockphoto) Hundreds of thousands of people bought flats in good faith, only to find that their homes are death traps or money pits. Leasehold is a form of financial servitude where the homeowner is a mere tenant, forever compensating the […] Click here to view original…

Majid Nawaz is one of the residents at Eastgate in Woking which was found to have unsafe cladding The extent of the unravelling cladding crisis in Surrey is larger than county councillors were originally told, they say. Surrey County Council (SCC) has been asked to hold a public hearing […] Click here to view original…

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has held new talks with lenders to try and free up the thousands of property sales stalled by the cladding crisis. It is reported that lenders including Barclays, Nationwide and Lloyds Banking Group discussed ways to help thousands of homeowners to sell their properties. The […] Click here to view original…

With just two days to Christmas, leaseholders affected by the crisis are scrambling to pay their mounting service charge and cladding remediation bills Last updated 1 hour ago With Christmas just around the corner, residents of unsafe homes in Suffolk have just one wish, some reassurance about what support […] Click here to view original…

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has held fresh talks with lenders to thrash out how to fix the cladding safety crisis. Sky News reports that lenders including Barclays, Nationwide and Lloyds Banking Group discussed ways to help thousands of homeowners and landlords to sell their properties, offering them some potential […] Click here to view original…

Secretary of State for Housing Michael Gove published an open letter to Ulster Rugby on Wednesday asking it to consider whether the Kingspan sponsorship deal reflects “the values of your club”. A group called End Our Cladding Scandal, which campaigns for better fire safety standards, welcomed the minister’s intervention. […] Click here to view original…

The battle over cladding costs is still being fought but, with property developers forced into line on ground rents, is the future any brighter for leaseholders? Emma Lunn asks the experts Shutterstock / nuchao The leasehold sector has always been a murky part of the property market, with leaseholders […] Click here to view original…

Michael Gove has held fresh talks with Britain’s biggest lenders in a bid to ease the cladding crisis that has left thousands of homeowners unable to sell their properties. Sky News understands that the secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities (DLUHC) met executives from lenders including […] Click here to view original…

Banks have agreed to modify assessments of some tall buildings in order to unblock property transactions Michael Gove has held fresh talks with Britain’s biggest lenders in a bid to ease the cladding crisis that has left thousands of homeowners unable to sell their properties. Sky News understands that […] Click here to view original…