Fire Brigade confirms ‘stay put’ is not its policy in tower blocks
Residents in a tower block on Regina Road claim that they may have been misled over fire safety procedures for their homes, after alarms failed to sound when blaze broke out last month. Already blighted by leaks, damp and mould, last month Regina Road residents were tested by fire […]Click here to view original web…
Gunwharf Quays residents in Portsmouth facing combined £17.4m cladding removal bill
The Blue Building, Gunwharf Road, Portsmouth. Picture: Google The work could last years and it’s feared the work at East Side Plaza will be on a scale that potentially deters shoppers and restaurant-goers. Concerns were first raised at the five-storey Blue Building when a new fire report recommended removing […] Click here to view original…
COMMENT: Government must act and get cladding removal funds released
Instead, it has turned into a nightmare with residents of more than 300 flats now facing a combined £17.4m bill for work to remove fire-risk cladding. Those in leasehold properties could end up liable for this enormous sum if their bid to access the government’s Building Safety Fund for […] Click here to view original…
In My View: Harriet Harman, MP for Camberwell and Peckham
The problems for people who own high rise flats are going from bad to worse because of the cladding debacle. Grenfell was a disaster because of unsafe cladding and so obviously it was right for all high rise buildings to be checked and dangerous cladding replaced. But years later […] Click here to view original…
Poole residents sent bills of up to £72,000 for cladding
See all 15 photos Residents of the Aqua apartment building in Poole are being sent invoices of up to £72,000, to pay for the cladding on their building after the introduction of new fire safety legislation. On average, the majority of the building’s 96 residents are receiving bills of […] Click here to view original…
Residents sent bills of up to 72,000 for cladding, are told to ‘pay up or risk being evicted’
See all 15 photos Residents of the Aqua apartment building in Poole are being sent invoices of up to 72,000, to pay for the cladding on their building after the introduction of new fire safety legislation. On average, the majority of the building’s 96 residents are receiving bills of […] Click here to view original…
Contaminated land equivalent proposal for cladding recourse
A “Polluter Pays” amendment to the Building Safety Bill is under consideration in government and would place the costs for cladding remediation on the construction industry. The Bill would enable government to pursue developers and builders for interim safety and final remediation costs in the same way contaminated land […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis: Family of 5 stuck in one-bed Chelmsford flat after trying to sell for years
Zoe says her family have “entirely outgrown” their one bedroom flat An Essex mum says she feels trapped in her one-bedroom flat as cladding concerns have stopped her being able to sell up. Parkway flats resident Zoe Bartley, 28 has been trying to sell her home for years – […] Click here to view original…
Families in flats with unsafe cladding ask why testing in Scotland is only just starting more than four years after Grenfell
Abhijeet Kadwe with sons Kiann and Advay on the balcony their Finnieston home at Lancefield Quay, Glasgow More than four years after the devastating fire at Grenfell Tower, thousands of Scots families continue to live in flats with potentially deadly cladding. A pilot scheme to assess the number of […] Click here to view original…
Government cladding remediation bill reaches £578m
A total of £578m has been spent to remediate residential buildings with unsafe non-aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding, the the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has said. More than half of the £1bn fund announced in the Budget of March 2020 has been spent on works on […] Click here to view original…
Stormont sets up £1m fund to remove dangerous cladding
The aftermath of the Grenfell fire disaster of 2017, when a fire that started on the fourth floor spread rapidly up the outside of the building Stormont Finance Minister Conor Murphy revealed the plan following a meeting with leaseholder representatives of Victoria Place Apartments. That building has aluminium composite […] Click here to view original…
Bath housing association flats set to be stripped of flammable cladding
Housing association flats in Bath are set to be stripped of flammable cladding like that used on Grenfell Tower. Burnthouse Court in Bath | Image © Google 2020 The materials are now banned in buildings over 18 metres, and while Burnthouse Court falls short of that limit, LiveWest said […] Click here to view original…