Residents left in darkness for six months after flats are wrapped in plastic
Residents in a multi-million pound apartment complex are “living in darkness” after the entire complex was wrapped in plastic. Islington Gates has been covered in plastic for six months. Huge sheeting covers every inch of the six-storey Islington Gates apartment complex in Birmingham. The plastic sheeting has been put […]Click here to view original web…
‘A drop in the ocean’: campaigners slam Government’s £2bn cladding tax on housebuilders
Cladding crisis Proposals to tax housebuilders to help pay for the cladding crisis will be a “drop in the ocean”, campaigners have warned, as tens of thousands of leaseholders continue to live in unsafe and unsaleable homes. Chancellor Rishi Sunak will announce the tax on housebuilders’ profits in the […] Click here to view original…
Cladding tax to raise £2bn over decade: Rishi Sunak targets major developers’ profits with planned new levy to help fix fire-trap flats
Rishi Sunak will slap a new tax on the big housebuilders to help fix the cladding scandal in next week’s Budget. The Chancellor will target the developers to recoup around £2billion of the cost of removing the dangerous materials from high-rise buildings. He will announce that the levy on […] Click here to view original…
Man describes how he feels ‘trapped’ in his Central Milton Keynes apartment due to cladding scandal
Residents living in flats with unsafe cladding have described to MK Council how they feel trapped and helpless. Last night councillors voted to write to the government to support the thousands of people in the borough who are battling with the national cladding scandal. The issue is that fire […] Click here to view original…
UK builders warn of fewer new affordable homes due to safety crisis costs
Plans for thousands of affordable homes are likely to be dropped as billions of pounds are set aside to fix the building safety crisis, UK builders have warned. Clarion Housing Group , the UK’s largest provider of affordable housing, told The Guardian it is set to build 1,800 fewer […] Click here to view original…
Residents at luxury apartments furious as they ‘live in permanent darkness’ after building is wrapped in PLASTIC
RESIDENTS in a luxury apartment block are “living in permanent darkness” after their entire building was wrapped in PLASTIC. Huge sheeting covers every inch of Islington Gate’s six-storey tower block in Birmingham while workers replace dangerous cladding with a non-flammable material. 8 Residents in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter are ‘living […] Click here to view original…
Green mortgages ‘could be next cladding scandal’: Scheme to make property energy efficient may trap millions in unsellable homes, MPs warn
Millions of homeowners could be trapped in unsellable houses if the Government presses ahead with a green mortgage scheme, MPs warned last night. They claimed that proposals which would make it harder to get a mortgage on poorly-insulated homes could be a ‘green cladding scandal in the making’. Under […] Click here to view original…
Housing crisis: Tories and Labour are not on our side
Fight for a socialist recovery A housing estate under redevelopment, Hackney, London, 10.5.20, photo JB (Click to enlarge) The deaths from the Grenfell Tower fire, and the fire safety issues it exposed, have shown the real face of the Conservative government and the Labour Party – tied to big […] Click here to view original…
Cladding: Leeds flat owners on ‘purgatory’ of cladding bill fears
Reece Garcia said flat owners are “crying out” for a solution An apartment owner facing a large bill for fire safety improvements has said it is “like living in purgatory”. Reece Garcia, 33, received a service charge for £103,000 for his apartment in a high-rise building in Leeds. He […] Click here to view original…
Building giant adds £50m to cladding fund to fix fire-trap flats after profits doubled
Property developer Bellway has set aside a further £51.8million to fix fire-trap flats after its profits doubled, it was announced yesterday. The firm said the extra funding takes the amount it has pledged for unsafe buildings since Grenfell in 2017 to £164.7million. It has made around £2billion profit in […] Click here to view original…
Cladding: Leeds flat owners on ‘purgatory’ of cladding bill fears
Reece Garcia said flat owners are “crying out” for a solution An apartment owner facing a large bill for fire safety improvements has said it is “like living in purgatory”. Reece Garcia, 33, received a service charge for £103,000 for his apartment in a high-rise building in Leeds. He […] Click here to view original…
Form EWS1 – Fire Safety in High-Rise Blocks
In this article we look at what a Form EWS1 is, when one might be required, and how it could affect our landlord and tenant clients alike. What is an EWS1 Form? Following the tragic fire at Grenfell Tower in 2017, the government engaged in extensive consultation to address […] Click here to view original…