Leaseholder Jamie Robb, bottom left, was told by Robert Jenrick’s government department that people with mental health fears over the cladding scandal should call the Samaritans. (Getty Images/PA/Jamie Robb) A leaseholder facing a £20,000 bill due to the cladding scandal has been told by the government that people with […]Click here to view original web…

Workers remove cladding for testing from one of the tower blocks in Salford. The new tax will come into force next year Housebuilders will pay higher taxes on profits over £25 million as the government tries to claw back money to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding from […] Click here to view original…

Survivors and bereaved relatives from the Grenfell Tower fire disaster say they are furious after parliament voted for measures that will leave householders facing huge bills for removing dangerous cladding from homes. They say the new law on fire safety measures is “indefensible” because it could lead to hundreds […] Click here to view original…

Why is it left to the unelected chamber to defend abandoned Brits? The Green peer looks at this week’s Lords agenda. Natalie Bennett is a Green Party peer and a Contributing Editor to Left Foot Forward. This week, two large groups of Brits entirely failed by the political system […] Click here to view original…

Introduction An increasing number of combustible cladding claims are coming before the courts with two important decisions in the first quarter of 2021 concerning timescales for bringing claims. Both decisions address the challenges of litigating years after the events took place. Both actions were issued only shortly before the […] Click here to view original…

PA Media Cladding campaigners say the “rug” has been pulled out “from underneath a generation of homeowners” after attempts to shield them from fire safety costs were rejected by MPs. It follows a long running parliamentary battle over who should pay to fix defects and faults following the Grenfell […] Click here to view original…

If natural justice had its proper bearing, hundreds of thousands of people would not tonight be sleeping in high-rise homes that are clad in materials that could potentially go up in flames, a prospect for which they not only have to pay fire safety costs and higher insurance bills, […] Click here to view original…

Labour’s shadow police and fire service minister has hit out at the government’s cladding loan scheme after LBC revealed it could take years to set up. Speaking in the Commons on Tuesday, Sarah Jones MP branded the scheme “vague and undefined” and warned it could lead to people losing […] Click here to view original…

Work on replacing dangerous cladding on high rise buildings across the UK could be accelerated and made cheaper if the government removed VAT charges for cladding and dropped a proposed tax on developers, says a tax and advisory firm. Heather Powell, a partner at Blick Rothenberg and head of […] Click here to view original…

More than 30 Tory MPs rebelled against the Government over the cladding scandal yesterday. They accused ministers of ignoring ‘screams of pain’ from leaseholders left to pay tens of thousands of pounds each to fix unsafe homes. The Government has set aside £5billion but hundreds of thousands of residents […] Click here to view original…

Nearly 300,000 people live in unsafe homes across Southwark and Lambeth, according to Labour Deepa Mistry and her partner Greg Longley pictured for a Panorama documentary about shared ownership properties and the cladding scandal (C) BBC – Photographer: Jordan Downer Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders will continue to face […] Click here to view original…

Cladding victims say they are “facing homelessness and bankruptcy” if the Government passes a Bill passing removal costs down to homeowners . Leaseholders across the country said they are cutting down on food and electricity as they brace themselves for the outcome of the Fire Safety Bill , which […] Click here to view original…