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 web…

A £5 billion fund has been set up to remove dangerous cladding following the Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people died (Photo by TOLGA AKMEN/AFP via Getty Images) The Government will give homeowners longer to sue developers in light of the cladding scandal, the Housing Secretary has said. […] Click here to view original…

Home-owners are to be given more than double the amount of time to go after builders and developers who carry out “shoddy workmanship” on their properties, the Housing Secretary has confirmed. Robert Jenrick said the Government will be changing the law to give home-owners 15 years – up from […] Click here to view original…

PA Media Homeowners will get 15 years in which to legally challenge “shoddy” building work in light of the cladding crisis, a minister has said. This would increase the current six-year period in which legal action can be brought against developers. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said the change would […] Click here to view original…

Opus House in St Albans has flammable cladding “When I was living there during lockdown it was just dreadful. “You’re stuck there 24 hours a day in a flat that could go up in flames in a matter of minutes. “You can’t sleep, you can’t do anything. “I was […] Click here to view original…

PICTURED: Queens Wharf Unsafe cladding has been found on yet another building in Reading, with the owner now seeking to replace the “non-compliant” materials. The owner of Queens Wharf, on 47 Queen’s Road, are seeking permission to replace the cladding at the apartment and offices block. Today is the […] Click here to view original…

Family members of leaseholders caught up in the building safety scandal are turning to desperate measures to help their loved ones in crisis, reports Martina Lees Dan and April Kennedy with their son, Elijah, 2, who own a flat in Brighton Caroline Kennedy helped her son to buy a […] Click here to view original…

London Assembly members have called on Sadiq Khan to boycott developers and housing associations that have failed to take action to protect leaseholders in fire risk properties following the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. Conservative and Green AMs teamed up with Liberal Democrat colleagues at today’s Assembly plenary session […] Click here to view original…

Property giant Ballymore have insisted the exit was “inaccessible for just a few hours” and that other fire exits were operational. Families in a high rise with Grenfell-style cladding were horrified after an emergency exit was blocked by workmen. It happened only weeks after a blaze at the London […] Click here to view original…

News Unsafe cladding has been removed from Channel View flats Picture: Alex Seabrook Alex Seabrook , local democracy reporter Four years after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed widespread fire safety issues in buildings across the UK, politicians still cannot agree on how to help. Cardiff councillors have called for […] Click here to view original…

The London Assembly has called on the mayor to stop funding and working with developers and housing associations who do not support leaseholders impacted by the cladding crisis. The motion, proposed by member of the London Assembly Hina Bokhari, also requested for the establishment of a fire safety victims […] Click here to view original…

Millions of people are still living in flammable buildings and facing huge bills to repair them (Picture: PA/Ollie Harrow) Flat owners stuck in ‘death trap’ homes have renewed calls for the government to save them from ruin on the four year anniversary of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Millions of […] Click here to view original…