Housing ministry knew how dangerous cladding was 15 years before the disaster — abandoned flat-owners are angry A protest in east London after a tower block fire in May In its first significant admission since the Grenfell fire in which 72 people died, the housing department told the public […]Click here to view original web…

Over the past month flat-owners living in high-rise blocks affected by the cladding crisis have come forward to complain of warring factions within their buildings, most often between residents’ associations and the people they are supposed to represent. At one end of the scale is what appears to be […] Click here to view original…

Housing minister Michael Gove has announced to Parliament that he will soon reveal a series of measures to tackle the cladding scandal which is currently affecting around 1.2 million leaseholders across the country. Amongst the measures, Gove is expected to announce that developers responsible for dangerous cladding could be […] Click here to view original…

A government plan to free owners of up to 800,000 flats in smaller blocks from needing the forms is likely to fail Owners of up to 1.3 million flats will remain trapped as surveyors refuse to accept a government U-turn on fire safety designed to unblock the market. The […] Click here to view original…

A government plan to free owners of up to 800,000 flats in smaller blocks from needing the forms is likely to fail Owners of up to 1.3 million flats will remain trapped as surveyors refuse to accept a government U-turn on fire safety designed to unblock the market. The […] Click here to view original…

A government plan to free owners of up to 800,000 flats in smaller blocks from needing the forms is likely to fail Owners of up to 1.3 million flats will remain trapped as surveyors refuse to accept a government U-turn on fire safety designed to unblock the market. The […] Click here to view original…

The government may be guilty of “deliberate cover-ups” of the findings of three reports into cladding fires in the 1990s, according to lawyers acting on behalf of survivors and bereaved families of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The public inquiry into the June 2017 blaze in west London that claimed […] Click here to view original…

A lawyer for victims of the disaster said cladding issues had been covered up since the 1990s The cladding type used on Grenfell Tower failed a government test 15 years before the fire that killed 72 people, the inquiry into the disaster has been told. The 2017 tragedy was […] Click here to view original…

A ‘Justice for Grenfell’ demonstration in London The government may be guilty of “deliberate cover-ups” of the findings of three reports into cladding fires in the 1990s, according to lawyers acting on behalf of survivors and bereaved families of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The public inquiry into the June […] Click here to view original…

Flames: The Eleventh Night bonfire in Sandy Row in 2019, with the Victoria Place apartment building on the right An apartment block with Grenfell-style cladding that was once damaged by an Eleventh Night bonfire may not be repaired until the middle of next year — five years after the […] Click here to view original…

An Executive funded project to remove unsafe cladding from an apartment block in Belfast is set to cost £400,000 and take six months to complete, the Assembly has heard. Finance Minister Conor Murphy told MLAs that the Victoria Place apartment block off Sandy Row in the south of the […] Click here to view original…

Sinn Fein Finance Minister Conor Murphy (PA) (PA Wire) An Executive funded project to remove unsafe cladding from an apartment block in Belfast is set to cost £400,000 and take six months to complete, the Assembly has heard. Finance Minister Conor Murphy told MLAs that the Victoria Place apartment […] Click here to view original…