Sheffield Council is carrying out the fire risk assessments and has already replaced external cladding at Hanover Tower in Broomhall. Phase two is in progress and will deliver fire compartmentation and renewal of fire safety systems at Hanover and Stannington tower blocks. Now phase three is underway and will […]Click here to view original web…

Michael Gove said he intends to pause the loan plan for leasehold homeowners trapped in unsafe and unsellable flats. (Photo by Rob Pinney/Getty Images) It sounds like the Government may be about to change tack on the cladding and building safety crisis . Given how quickly they U-turned on […] Click here to view original…

The Bank of England is telling lenders to ring-fence vast sums in case cladding victims default on mortgages, the Daily Mail can reveal. Officials are worried lenders could go bust as hundreds of thousands of flats are still unsaleable and leaseholders brace for a flood of bankruptcies. It has […] Click here to view original…

Hundreds of thousands of people are still living in dangerous blocks four years on from Grenfell – while many flat owners have been left with spiralling insurance costs, service charges, and requirements for expensive 24-hour “waking watch” patrols in case of fire. Share this news on your Fb,Twitter and […] Click here to view original…

Building regulations for high-rise buildings have been under close scrutiny since the Grenfell disaster. House-builders may be “gaming the system” to avoid having to adhere to fire safety regulations put in place as a result of the Grenfell Tower tragedy, a fire chief has warned. For example, buildings may […] Click here to view original…

Michael Gove said he intends to pause the loan plan for leasehold homeowners trapped in unsafe and unsellable flats. (Photo by Rob Pinney/Getty Images) It sounds like the Government may be about to change tack on the cladding and building safety crisis . Given how quickly they U-turned on […] Click here to view original…

Getty Images Housing Secretary Michael Gove has questioned why flat owners should have to pay anything for dangerous cladding to be removed from their buildings. He said the government had a responsibility to help leaseholders – who were “innocent parties” – with the huge costs. Plans to make flat […] Click here to view original…

Leaseholders should not have to pay a penny towards the cost of replacing fire-risk cladding, Michael Gove said last night in an apparent major concession. The recently appointed Housing Secretary said he was looking at scrapping the requirement for thousands of leaseholders to take out loans to pay for […] Click here to view original…

The new housing secretary Michael Gove has promised to revisit the cladding scandal with a ‘fresh pair of eyes’ and see how thousands of leaseholders – including many landlords – can be helped out of the unending nightmare many find themselves in. Gove (pictured) made the comments during a […] Click here to view original…

Getty Images Residents of some blocks deemed to be unsafe have been forced to leave Flat owners should not have to pay for dangerous cladding to be removed from their buildings, according to Housing Secretary Michael Gove. He said plans had been paused for a loan scheme to help […] Click here to view original…

The replacement of ‘potentially dangerous’ cladding on Trafford’s social housing tower blocks has been delayed even further. Work to strip off and replace the ‘potentially unsafe’ cladding on Trafford’s five social housing tower blocks has been ongoing for over three years – but the job is now not expected […] Click here to view original…

Housing Secretary Michael Gove has said homeowners in unsafe buildings shouldn’t have to pay to get them fixed. This comes as leaseholders affected by the cladding scandal are receiving bills for tens or even hundreds of thousands of pounds to fix buildings they believed to be safe. As the […] Click here to view original…