See all 13 photos RESIDENTS of one block of flats in Poole have been shaken to the core by new fire safety legislation that could lead to them losing their home, falling into a spiral of debt or becoming homeless. People living in privately owned high-rise flats covered in […]Click here to view original web…

Mortgage lenders “wouldn’t touch” her flat under the current situation, says Emma Lee The government’s latest attempts to unlock parts of the property market paralysed by the cladding crisis have stalled, according to campaign groups. An agreement between the High Street’s biggest banks and the Ministry of Housing was […] Click here to view original…

Mortgage lenders “wouldn’t touch” her flat under the current situation, says Emma Lee The government’s latest attempts to unlock parts of the property market paralysed by the cladding crisis have stalled, according to campaign groups. An agreement between the High Street’s biggest banks and the Ministry of Housing was […] Click here to view original…

The blackened shell of Grenfell Tower in west London after the fire City cladding scandal victims have praised Birmingham REP for choosing to stage a play about the Grenfell Inquiry. Grenfell: Value Engineering – Scenes from The Inquiry – based entirely on the words of those involved in the […] Click here to view original…

Recently, I attended a demonstration at Leeds Dock organised by the leaseholders who live there and who are affected by the cladding scandal. Many of them were holding cardboard signs showing the amounts of money they fear they may be asked for to fix the fire safety defects in […] Click here to view original…

The government has announced that home-buyers purchasing flats in buildings lower than 18m will no longer be required to provide safety details on external walls in order to get a mortgage. The rule change, which will only apply in England, has been welcomed by HSBC, Lloyds, and Barclays who […] Click here to view original…

MP Jon Cruddas has slammed the ‘government, building firms and manufacturers’ for the ongoing cladding issues at the Orchard Village estate. Tenants of the Orchard Village estate are victims of the ongoing “cladding scandal”, MP Jon Cruddas said, as they are left in limbo waiting to hear about the […] Click here to view original…

Nova House in Slough has major issues over its fire cladding Slough Council is ‘extremely unlikely’ to be able to claw back the £10m costs of making a building covered in Grenfell Tower-esque cladding safe. In 2019 the council’s cabinet approved a £7m loan, with an option to provide […] Click here to view original…

Julia Lopez met with Dagenham Ford’s chairman following residents’ concerns Parliament may be on summer recess but my team and I continue to work hard on complex casework and local campaigns. One of the trickiest issues to resolve has been of flat owners in cladded properties caught up in […] Click here to view original…

Mayer House, Chatham Place, Reading town centre ‘Dangerous and defective’ cladding could be removed from a seven-storey tower block for key workers in Reading. Plans have been submitted for combustible material to be removed from the façade at Mayer House. It would be replaced with non-combustible material, along with […] Click here to view original…

Almost half of a waking watch cladding fund has been left unclaimed due to a difficult qualification process. New statistics reveal that the Waking Watch Relief Fund introduced to aid leaseholders affected by the unsafe cladding scandal, show that almost half of the fund has been left unclaimed. Property […] Click here to view original…

Principle Estate Management has welcomed a major UK government intervention that means leaseholders “trapped” in flats due to the cladding crisis could soon be able to sell or remortgage their properties. The comments from the estate manager come in the wake of advice from an independent expert group that […] Click here to view original…