Cladding crisis – SLC pens letter to Michael Gove urging action
The letter is reproduced in full below. John Clay, a board member and past chairman of the Society of Licensed Conveyancers, has written an open letter to the new Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove, regarding cladding – which has developed into a national […]Click here to view original web…
Leeds woman ‘trapped’ in fire hazard apartment with £100,000 cladding repair bill
Emilie Boswell, 26, bought her dream £180,000 waterfront property in May 2018 and a fire safety report concluded there were “no obvious signs of cladding”. But a year later, residents in the apartment block in the stylish Leeds Dock area were told they needed round-the-clock fire patrols as their […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis – SLC pens letter to Michael Gove urging action
The letter is reproduced in full below. John Clay, a board member and past chairman of the Society of Licensed Conveyancers, has written an open letter to the new Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove, regarding cladding – which has developed into a national […] Click here to view original…
Family of six risks losing home after being hit with £85,000 cladding bill
The bills facing Oyster Court total £2.6 million Emma and her family A teacher with four children faces losing her Walworth home after being landed with an eye-watering £85,000 fire safety bill. Leaseholders in Oyster Court, off Crampton Street, have been told they must pay £2.6 million for the […] Click here to view original…
Cladding scandal: Leaseholders face £20,000 bill after government withdraw funding due to ‘error’
ITV Granada Reports’ Andrew Fletcher has the latest on the story. Leaseholders trapped in unsafe flats in a North West city are facing cladding bills of up to £20,000, after the Government withdrew its funding approval due to an ‘error.’ Residents of the XQ7 tower block, in Salford, had […] Click here to view original…
Flat owner, 26, says she feels ‘trapped’ in fire hazard £180,000 waterfront apartment after being hit with £100K bill for cladding repairs – despite being told it was safe when she moved in
A flat owner says she feels ‘trapped’ in a fire hazard apartment after being hit with a whopping £100,000 bill for cladding repairs. Emilie Boswell, 26, bought her dream waterfront property for £180,000 in May 2018 and a fire safety report concluded there were ‘no obvious signs of cladding’. […] Click here to view original…
Developers must face crackdown on buildings which leave residents fearing for their safety, councillor says
Mortgage companies are unlikely to lend for flats without an EWS1 form A Surrey councillor is calling for planning authorities to get tougher on developers whose constructions have left occupants fearing for their safety. Councillor Robert Evans (Lab, Stanwell & Stanwell Moor) wants the county council to urge borough […] Click here to view original…
London council doesn’t know how many towers have Grenfell-style cladding after blunder
More buildings in the borough have applied for government fire safety funding than the whole of Manchester An East London council doesn’t know how many tall buildings on its patch are covered in dangerous Grenfell-style cladding, a report has found. Letters telling building owners where there’s any dangerous cladding […] Click here to view original…
Persimmon builds entire block of flats wrong way around with windows facing backwards
One of the UK’s biggest housing developers has been ordered to modify a series of homes after it built an entire block backwards. Persimmon Homes will have to fix dozens of homes in Colchester, Essex, where 262 properties have been built and put on the market. The block of […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis: key workers left in limbo over looming £85k bill as confusion over Government aid continues
Flat owner Beth Pritchard, who says she and her girlfriend have ‘an £85,000 albatross around our necks’ The owner of a London flat says she has been hit unfairly with an £85,000 repair bill for the outside of her block, as the confusion over finance for cladding repairs continues […] Click here to view original…
University of Essex to remove cladding from Southend sites
The designs A UNIVERSITY’S distinctive cladding is set to be torn down after it was found to be dangerous. Accommodation for University of Essex students, on University Square in Southend’s town centre, is known for its bold design, but the buildings, which reach up to 10-storeys high, will now […] Click here to view original…
SLC urges Government to act on cladding
The Society of Licensed Conveyancers has urged the government to take urgent action to protect all those affected by the cladding scandal in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster. Board Member and former Chairman John Clay has written an open letter to the Secretary of State Michael Gove […] Click here to view original…