The independent cladding expert Jonathan Evans blew the whistle on the cladding crisis at its start, just after the Grenfell fire, and turned out to be right. Now he is doing it again. New red tape could stoke the scandal into “Armageddon” for millions of flat owners, he claims, […]Click here to view original web…

Getty Images A fire risk assessor for Grenfell Tower was “professionally reckless” for signing off its cladding as safe without evidence, an inquiry has heard. Expert witness Dr Barbara Lane said Carl Stokes was not qualified to say the cladding complied with regulations. She disagreed with another witness who […] Click here to view original…

By Joe Talora, local democracy reporter More than 1,000 residential buildings in London have been identified as fire safety risks, the London Fire Brigade has revealed. London Fire Brigade Commissioner Andy Roe confirmed on Friday the capital had passed the “unacceptable” milestone. As many as 1,006 buildings in London […] Click here to view original…

London’s Fire Commissioner has called for urgent change in the building industry as the number of blocks of flats in London with fire safety failings passes 1,000. The latest London Fire Brigade figures show that 1,006 buildings in the capital have currently suspended the ‘stay put’ building design strategy, […] Click here to view original…

The cladding and building safety scandal is destroying lives Innocent leaseholders trapped in flammable, unsellable flats due to the cladding and building safety scandal are staging a rally in London on Thursday September 16. Living in fear of fire and paying for safety measures and huge hikes in insurance, […] Click here to view original…

PA London Fire Brigade Commissioner Andy Roe said the capital had passed the “unacceptable” milestone, with 1,006 buildings in London requiring simultaneous evacuation orders–where all residents must leave the building at the same time if there is a fire–due to fire safety defects. Four years on from the Grenfell […] Click here to view original…

Grenfell Tower. Photo by Rick Findler/PA wire HOW much is a human life worth? Let’s do the maths. If you divide £293,368 by 72 – the number of lives lost in the Grenfell fire in June 2017 – that’s the figure you come up with. Not very much for […] Click here to view original…

Havering Council leader Damian White said he had become embroiled in the post-Grenfell cladding scandal, as it had rendered his Harold Wood flat unsellable. Havering Council leader Damian White has been caught up in the post-Grenfell cladding scandal, he has revealed. The Tory council chief told the Recorder his […] Click here to view original…

The proposed Building Safety Bill still leaves leaseholders bearing the brunt of the cladding crisis, the Law Society of England and Wales has warned. Introduced following the devastating Grenfell Tower fire and subsequent public inquiry, which exposed the widespread use of hazardous cladding on buildings across England and Wales, […] Click here to view original…

Getty Images A fire risk assessor for Grenfell Tower was “professionally reckless” for signing off its cladding as safe without evidence, an inquiry has heard. Expert witness Dr Barbara Lane said Carl Stokes was not qualified to say the cladding complied with regulations. She disagreed with another witness who […] Click here to view original…

Deborah and her partner Guy Griffiths have lived in Victoria Wharf for 10 years A Cardiff cladding scandal victim has described feeling ‘frustrated, angry and left in tears’ as safety costs spiral. Four years after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed widespread fire safety issues in buildings across the UK, […] Click here to view original…

Leaseholders risk being “fleeced” by profiteering landlords and builders in the post-Grenfell fire safety crisis, a senior government adviser has warned in comments likely to increase pressure on ministers to finally resolve the problem. More than four years after the disaster that claimed 72 lives , tens of thousands […] Click here to view original…