‘Incomprehensible’ that combustible cladding banned after Grenfell is still in use in schools, campaigners say
The cladding is still in use despite being banned on some buildings in the wake of the fire (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty) It is “incomprehensible” that combustible insulation used on the Grenfell Tower is still in use on British schools and hospitals despite a partial ban because of fire risks, […]Click here to view original web…
The property tycoons who are still not tackling ‘Grenfell’ cladding
A member of David Cameron ’s family and a multi-millionaire Tory party donor are linked to firms which are yet to strip Grenfell-style cladding from high-rise buildings, the Daily Mail can reveal. Britain’s biggest freehold investors are implicated by a Government list shaming companies that have yet to start […] Click here to view original…
Revealed: The property tycoons who are still not tackling their ‘Grenfell’ cladding… including a relative of David Cameron’s and a prominent Tory donor
A member of David Cameron ’s family and a multi-millionaire Tory party donor are linked to firms which are yet to strip Grenfell-style cladding from high-rise buildings, the Daily Mail can reveal. Britain’s biggest freehold investors are implicated by a Government list shaming companies that have yet to start […] Click here to view original…
Fire-risk cladding found at luxury apartment block on Plymouth Hoe
One of the city’s most lavish and prominent apartment blocks is to have “combustible cladding” removed and replaced. An application has been put in to Plymouth City Council’s planning department for The Azure and Azure West, on Grand Hotel Road, overlooking the Hoe, to remove “existing combustible cladding and […] Click here to view original…
Fire risk cladding found on another luxury tower block in Plymouth
Another stunning apartment block which enjoys a desirable waterfront position is also set to undergo works to remove “combustible cladding”. Completed in 2006, East Quay House is considered by estate agents as a “must sought after” waterside development on the eastern quay in Sutton Harbour. A stone’s-throw from the […] Click here to view original…
Homeowners living in unsafe cladding flats must be protected from the £15BILLION fire safety repair bill, says Housing Select Committee chair
The new Fire Safety Act failed to protect all leaseholders from cladding repair costs and the head of the committee that scrutinises Government housing policy is not holding back about who needs to pick up the bill. Chairman of the Communities and Local Government committee, Clive Betts MP, spoke […] Click here to view original…
Flat-owners faced £2m bill after being wrongly told cladding was unsafe
Residents who bought flats in Bell Flower Lodge, Harold Wood, were mistakenly told their cladding was unsafe and would have to be replaced. Homeowners in a Harold Wood apartment block were mistakenly told their cladding was dangerous and would have to be replaced. For months, residents at Bell Flower […] Click here to view original…
Cladding claim – developers could face tax on profits as high as £50m
The UK’s 10 biggest developers could each face a potential average tax bill of £25 million per year if the government introduces a new residential property developer tax, according to research by a lettings and estate agent. In the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017, it was […] Click here to view original…
Government pushed developer Ballymore for ‘months’ to remove Grenfell-style cladding from block that caught fire
The Government knew a developer had “sufficient resources” to remove Grenfell -style cladding from a tower block that caught fire and had been pushing them for “months”, a letter revealed today. Two residents were hospitalised and more than 40 people needed treatment by ambulance crews after the fire in […] Click here to view original…
‘Safety comes before cost’: Judge rules Grenfell-style cladding must be stripped from Whitechapel apartment blocks
Two London apartment blocks will be stripped of their combustible Grenfell -style cladding after a judge ruled that safety concerns have to be put before questions over cost. Plans are underway to remove aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding from the 18-storey residential towers at 52-58 Commercial Road , Whitechapel […] Click here to view original…
‘Painfully slow’ progress on cladding crisis as just £40m spent in one month from pot of billions
Ministers today faced accusations of making “painfully slow” progress towards tackling the cladding crisis after just £40 million was handed out from a multibillion-pound government safety fund in a month. Almost four years on from the Grenfell disaster hundreds of thousands of people are still living in tall buildings […] Click here to view original…
Anne Clarke: Ministers must lift financial burden from London’s cladding scandal leaseholders
We live in a world full of deadlines. Some of those deadlines are small hurdles and easy to jump. Others are huge, looming over us and casting long shadows across our lives. For leaseholders caught up in the cladding scandal each approaching deadline – whether it’s a mortgage renewal, […] Click here to view original…