Gove said that plans to make flat owners fork out for fixing their properties would be put on hold and called requirements for 24-hour fire patrols a “rip-off”. Photo: PA Michael Gove has questioned why flat owners have been left picking up the bill as dangerous cladding is removed […]Click here to view original web…

Grafton Court, Old Trafford 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 […] Click here to view original…

London Fire Brigade data has classed 93 buildings in Hackney as high risk Pic: Charissa Cheong Hackney has the second highest number of tower blocks with fire safety defects with only the borough of Tower Hamlets exceeding it according to new figures published last week. The London Fire Brigade […] Click here to view original…

The cladding on Grenfell Tower helped the fire spread Michael Gove has confirmed the government will “pause” plans to make leaseholders pay to make cladding safe as he questioned why they have to pay “at all”. The housing secretary also said the government “failed people at Grenfell”, in reference […] Click here to view original…

Michael Gove has indicated that he is preparing to rip up controversial housing targets that have triggered a backlash from the party’s backbench MPs and grassroots supporters. The Housing Secretary said that he is looking at how “housing need” is calculated, amid fears it is based on out of […] Click here to view original…

Safety advice that has left thousands of households unable to sell their homes after the Grenfell Tower fire will be withdrawn by Christmas, Michael Gove has announced. The secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities told MPs the government would revoke advice that has stood since January […] Click here to view original…

The Grenfell Memorial Wall in the grounds of Kensington Aldridge Academy (Jonathan Brady/PA) Mr Gove made the comments on Monday during his first appearance at the House of Commons’ Housing, Communities and Local Government Committee since taking over the housing brief in September’s reshuffle. Asked about the building safety […] Click here to view original…

Smoke billows from Grenfell Tower as firefighters attempted to control the huge blaze on June 14, 2017 in west London Sites of buildings with deadly combustible cladding will not be made public – in case they are set on fire. The Scottish Government is withholding the locations of tower […] Click here to view original…

Thousands of forces families at risk at Clyde nuclear base tower blocks SERIOUS safety concerns have been raised for thousands of forces personnel living in 22 separate high rise tower blocks that have combustible cladding at the home of Britain’s nuclear weapons on the Clyde more than four years […] 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…

Subscribe to The Global Herald in Google News The Independent published this video item, entitled “Boris Johnson denies homes with cladding are unsafe” – below is their description. Boris Johnson has denied the idea that flats with cladding are unsafe, as he dodged a request to meet the victim […] Click here to view original…

In the video from the House of Commons, Paul Blomfield, MP for Sheffield Central, asked the Prime Minister to meet with a Sheffield woman he accused on television of having a “frankly unnecessary sense of anxiety” about fire safety defects in her home, so that he can hear why […] Click here to view original…