The Building Safety Bill was recently put forward to parliament, after a long period of consultation. Said to be bringing the biggest improvements to building safety in a generation – and with many of the changes related to the fallout of Grenfell and its subsequent inquiries to ensure fire […]Click here to view original web…

Upon his appointment as the new Housing Secretary, Michael Gove’s brief was made clear. The former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was told that the first and foremost item in his in-tray was the cladding crisis which continues to affect hundreds of thousands of residents and property owners. […] Click here to view original…

Thousands of people are stuck in flats they cannot sell or remortgage despite government efforts to persuade banks to drop fire-safety cladding checks on low-rise buildings. The government announced in July that external wall surveys, or EWS1 certificates, which have become commonplace since the Grenfell disaster , would no […] Click here to view original…

Revealed: Britain’s top builders have been personally paid £708 million, but their companies have pledged just £643 million to repair fire-risk properties About a thousand leaseholders, who are among an estimated 700,000 people who are still trapped in unsafe flats, marched on parliament to protest about the quality of […] Click here to view original…

Deborah Polverino and her partner Guy Griffiths are facing spiralling costs People who have lost thousands of pounds in the post-Grenfell fire safety crisis have asked for urgent help amid spiralling insurance and service costs. Deborah Polverino, from Cardiff, saw her annual service charge rise from £3,000 to nearly […] Click here to view original…

PA Media image captionThe Grenfell fire in June 2017 claimed the lives of 72 people The government failed to act over warnings of the risks of cladding more than seven years before the Grenfell Tower fire, a public inquiry has heard. The London Fire Brigade (LFB) asked the government […] Click here to view original…

Barratt boss takes home £3.7m bonus amid fury as cladding scandal continues 1 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…

People release balloons at the Grenfell Memorial Community Mosaic at the base of the tower block in London × THE Grenfell Tower disaster exposed the appalling situation facing hundreds of thousands of people in relation to building safety in Britain. While the British government can launch drone strikes in […] Click here to view original…

Finance Minister Conor Murphy said the funding `is targeted at the highest risk buildings’. Picture by Liam McBurney/PA Wire Aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding became notorious following the June 2017 fire when it was blamed for contributing to the rapid spread of the fire up the outside of the […] Click here to view original…

Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who thinks nothing of getting rich party donors to pay for lavish gold flock wallpaper costing tens of thousands of pounds for his Downing Street flat, has this week refused to offer help to hard-pressed residents in a Croydon block who are facing bills […] Click here to view original…

Housing associations that own development companies and for-profit providers could be subject to the new levy on development being introduced by the government to help pay for cladding remediation Labour pledges to reform affordable rent to match 30% of incomes The Week in Housing: DLUHC of the draw Grenfell […] Click here to view original…

Grenfell Tower | Credit: Mark Kerrison/Alamy Live News The ex-commissioner of the London Fire Brigade (LFB) twice warned the government about fire risks associated with external wall panels in 2009 and 2012, the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire has heard. Ron Dobson, the then LFB head, wrote to […] Click here to view original…