Leigh Faulkner’s flat was in the Victoria Wharf development in Cardiff Bay Leigh Faulkner’s two-bed flat had been worth around £175,000 but he sold it for £50,000 less after post-Grenfell fire safety problems emerged. The 54-year-old father-of-two decided to “take the hit” financially because of uncertainty over government help. […]Click here to view original web…

Adrienne Burton (left) and Elaine Stevens pictured in front of The Landmark building in Bexhill in February. SUS-210902-115534001 The Observer reported earlier this year how residents living in the Landmark building said they were ‘living in fear’ after surveyors recommended major repairs to the complex following a safety report. […] Click here to view original…

(2) MULTI-million pound plans to replace dangerous cladding on a block of flats in Southampton have been revealed. Residents at Empress Heights, near Ocean Village, face almost two years of work to their building should the plans submitted to Southampton City Council be approved. It is understood that the […] Click here to view original…

David Thomas picked up £2.91million in bonuses on top of his £757,000 pay The boss of Britain’s biggest homes firm netted £3.7million this year – as many cladding scandal victims were facing bankruptcy. Barratt chief David Thomas, 58, picked up £2.91million in bonuses on top of his £757,000 pay, […] Click here to view original…

The Scottish Government has released a report on the use of external high pressure laminate (HPL) cladding system across a number of sectors in Scotland. Following a data collection exercise involving both residential and non-residential buildings, it was found that a total of 393 buildings had external HPL cladding […] Click here to view original…

Fire Brigade Union calls for more to be done to help people ‘trapped’ by the cladding crisis 1 A union has called for more to be done to help people ‘trapped’ by the cladding crisis. A motion was put forward by the Fire Brigades Union (FBU) during the Labour […] Click here to view original…

The Labour Party has backed action in relation to the building safety crisis that has arisen since Grenfell, calling for “sustained investment” in public services that could help resolve the crisis and prevent it continuing in new buildings. The party took the step through the passing of a motion […] Click here to view original…

lpost logo The Labour Party has backed action in relation to the building safety crisis that has arisen since Grenfell, calling for “sustained investment” in public services that could help resolve the crisis and prevent it continuing in new buildings. The party took the step through the passing of […] Click here to view original…

Cardiff Council has confirmed its commitment to delivering recladding works to three of the authority’s high rise blocks, which had cladding removed after the Grenfell tragedy. Llandaff North’s Lydstep Flats are home to 126 households, and make up three of five council high rises which the local authority intends […] Click here to view original…

Fire safety issues were uncovered at the Orwell Quay complex in Ipswich earlier this year. Inset: Tom Hunt MP and buy-to-let owner Terry Colthorpe Apartment blocks on Ipswich’s flagship Waterfront are set to be cloaked in netting-style material while its ‘high-risk’ Grenfell-style cladding is replaced, it can be revealed. […] Click here to view original…

Draft legislation has been published for a new tax that will be levied on large developers’ profits from buying and selling land with planning applications, to contribute to the government’ s cladding remediation costs. Rishi Sunak is set to announce the tax on developers with profits over £25 million […] Click here to view original…

After five weeks’ summer recess, over three years of hearings, and over four years since the June 2017 criminal fire that killed 72 people in a tower block in the middle of London, the Grenfell fire inquiry resumed this month with no end in sight. With blanket immunity granted […] Click here to view original…