Town Hall leader clashes with Gove over fire safety in homes
Secretary of State for Housing singles out Town Hall leader for a scolding over ‘multitude of failings’ Cllr Georgia Gould and Michael Gove [Simon Dawson_No10 Downing Street] THE Secretary of State for Housing sent a personal letter to the Town Hall leader saying he is “profoundly troubled” about “your […]Click here to view original web…
Flammable ‘Grenfell’ cladding finally set to be removed from Islington student flats
Arbour House Potentially harmful cladding is likely to be removed from two blocks of student accommodation in Islington . Unite Students has asked for planning permission to take the building material off two seven-storey blocks of student flats in Clerkenwell and near Pentonville prison. It is the latest application […] Click here to view original…
Fire service refuses to name 23 ‘high risk’ buildings in Nottinghamshire
PICTURED: Nottinghamshire Fire & Rescue headquarters in Arnold Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said it is unable to publicly name 23 buildings it has identified as ‘high risk’. The service identified the buildings on its patch following the Grenfell Tower disaster, which killed 72 people in 2017. The Local […] Click here to view original…
Fire service refuses to name 23 ‘high risk’ buildings in Nottinghamshire
The former Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service headquarters By Anna Whittaker, Local Democracy Reporter Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said it is unable to publicly name 23 buildings it has identified as ‘high risk’. The service identified the buildings on its patch following the Grenfell Tower disaster, which killed […] Click here to view original…
Unsafe cladding on Phoenix building to remain for further five months ahead of £13 million remedial work
Unsafe cladding will be removed from the Phoenix building in the new year. Unsafe cladding on a prominent city centre building is set to be removed next year. The Leicester City Council -owned Phoenix building, which is home to 63 privately-owned apartments, is covered in a type of cladding […] Click here to view original…
Kingspan results to round off the week
Will Kingspan nudge up full-year profit guidance? Will there be a Kingspansion of profits? Source: edie Kingspan Group PLC (LSE:KGP) results will be all about the outlook and whether profit guidance has been upped. Back in early July, the insulation and cladding specialist said half-year underlying profit (EBITA) will […] Click here to view original…
Which developers have joined the Responsible Actors Scheme?
(Image: Anthony Baggett via Dreamstime.com) The government launched on 21 July a Responsible Actors Scheme (RAS) requiring residential developers to pay for building safety remediation work. Elegible developers who do not join the scheme, or later fail to comply with its conditions, will be effectively frozen out of the […] Click here to view original…
The luxury riverside apartment owners trapped in a costly nightmare
In February last year, Michael Gove committed to new laws to “protect leaseholders from exorbitant costs” needed to fix the fire-risk cladding scandal. But a year and a half later, some flat owners feel far from protected. Those who live in flats cursed with dangerous cladding may have been […] Click here to view original…
The luxury riverside apartment owners trapped in a costly nightmare
In February last year, Michael Gove committed to new laws to “protect leaseholders from exorbitant costs” needed to fix the fire-risk cladding scandal. But a year and a half later, some flat owners feel far from protected. Those who live in flats cursed with dangerous cladding may have been […] Click here to view original…
The luxury riverside apartment owners trapped in a costly red tape nightmare
In February last year, Michael Gove committed to new laws to “protect leaseholders from exorbitant costs” needed to fix the fire-risk cladding scandal. But a year and a half later, some flat owners feel far from protected. Those who live in flats cursed with dangerous cladding may have been […] Click here to view original…
NI: Remediation fund unveiled for unsafe external cladding
The Northern Ireland Executive has launched a new £33 million fund for the remediation or mitigation of the life safety fire risks linked to external wall systems in residential buildings. The fund, which comes six years after the Grenfell Tower fire in London, applies to residential buildings which are […] Click here to view original…
Northern Ireland £33m scheme launched to address unsafe external wall cladding
Grenfell Towers in West London A £33million scheme has been launched in Northern Ireland to address fire safety risks linked to external wall cladding on residential buildings. The fund, which comes six years after the Grenfell tower fire in London, follows a similar scheme in England. It applies to […] Click here to view original…