Fire safety fears at Merchants Quay in Gloucester Docks have sparked round-the-clock patrols. A round-the-clock patrol is underway on a block of flats in Gloucester Docks after “defects” were found in the cladding, sparking fears of a major blaze. Merchants Quay has been put under a ‘waking watch’ with […]Click here to view original web…

This Wherstead Road building is one of many caught up with the cladding scandal post-Grenfell A new building safety regulator given powers to prosecute rule-breaking developers and take their properties off the market has been blasted by Ipswich Cladiators for not solving the fire-safety crisis. Housing secretary Robert Jenrick […] Click here to view original…

We wrote to the prime minister on March 3 to ask for his help in ending the building cladding scandal. We have not received a reply. The situation is only more desperate now, and we have written again to beg him to step in and take control of this […] Click here to view original…

The housing and communities secretary says it’s “not right” for leaseholders or taxpayers to foot the bill of “shoddy” building work as he is questioned over Grenfell-style cladding. Robert Jenrick told the BBC’s Andrew Marr a new law was being introduced allowing leaseholders 15 years to sue developers. Click here to view original web page…

Leaseholders at a block of flats in Salford are facing bills of almost £100,000 to repair fire safety defects exposed since the Grenfell Tower disaster. The overall cost of fixing a series of problems at Transport House will be £3 million, shared between the around 30 flats in the […] Click here to view original…

It is four years this month that 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire. Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images It is four years this month that 72 people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire. Since then, the spotlight has been on the cladding and fire […] Click here to view original…

Thousands of leaseholders living in dangerous blocks will not be protected by the latest government attempt to tackle the spiralling cost of the post-Grenfell fire safety crisis, it has emerged, as ministers publish legislation allowing developers to pass on costs to residents. The housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, on Monday […] Click here to view original…

For the 72 people who died in the Grenfell Tower fire four years ago, the cladding scandal was fatal. For thousands more, it is becoming a nightmare. The government is removing the deadly cladding from some 500 of the most at-risk towers, but beyond that, the residents of an […] Click here to view original…

Luke Ren, Caroline Haydon-Knowell and Rand Moore, residents in St Francis Tower in Ipswich, are outraged after the entire building has been wrapped in plastic. Top right: Tom Hunt MP with tower residents, and bottom right, the metal poles that have been fixed to windows Already cloaked in darkness […] Click here to view original…

The government has set up a regulator to oversee the UK’s cladding safety regime which was introduced after the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. Called the Building Safety Regulator, the new body is designed to protect residents and landlords by acting as a vehicle to prosecute property developers which […] Click here to view original…

See all 12 photos MORE than four years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, 22 blocks of flats within the Bournemouth conurbation are still under investigation for non-compliant cladding and fire safety. This number in the BCP Council area has risen from 10 since February, 2021. A BCP spokesperson […] Click here to view original…

Leaseholders saddled with vast repair bills in the wake of the Grenfell fire disaster have dismissed new rules to pursue rogue developers as a ‘lawyers’ get-rich-quick scheme’. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick announced yesterday that the period during which developers can face legal action over ‘shoddy workmanship’ was being lengthened […] Click here to view original…