The freeholder and managing agents of a central Ipswich tower block are facing calls to respond to residents’ fears over their living conditions. From top: Block Management UK Ltd director David Collinson, Tom Hunt MP and a resident in ‘darkness’ at St Francis Tower, tenants Rand Moore and Caroline […]Click here to view original web…

Bought up to be pulled down? Citiscape, on Frith Road Citiscape, the Barratts-built residential tower block on Drummond Road and Frith Road in Old Town, has become the first in Britain to be bought back by its builders in order to resolve issues around the building’s dangerous Grenfell-like aluminium […] Click here to view original…

New blow for 230,000 in fire risk flats scandal Homeowners living in flats with deadly cladding will have to wait almost a quarter of a century for it to be removed. The revelation comes ahead of the fourth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower blaze tomorrow. New analysis by Labour […] Click here to view original…

Bought up to be pulled down? Citiscape, on Frith Road Citiscape, the Barratts-built residential tower block on Drummond Road and Frith Road in Old Town, has become the first in Britain to be bought back by its builders in order to resolve issues around the building’s dangerous Grenfell-like aluminium […] Click here to view original…

Tory councillor Michael Deon Burton is among residents at Rainham’s Orchard Village estate who fear broken doors could trap them inside during a fire. – Credit: Charles Thomson Residents on a Rainham housing estate say they fear becoming trapped inside their homes during a fire, as their doors keep […] Click here to view original…

Property agents stand to earn hundreds of millions of pounds by charging administration fees on works to make buildings safe after the Grenfell Tower fire , Labour has said, as it urged the government to nationalise the process of making high-rise flats safe. Managing agents of tower blocks caught […] Click here to view original…

A riverside flat block by Leeds railway station suffered a dramatic exterior fire this week (Tuesday 8 June 2021), raising concerns once again about dangerous cladding and related building defects – but West Yorkshire Fire Service were on this occasion able to contain the fire, and all residents escaped […] Click here to view original…

Savills and JLL say a lack of robust information from landlords on cladding is bedevilling attempts to get market moving Two of the largest UK property consultants have warned that they remain unable to value many housing blocks in the wake of the cladding crisis, despite recent reforms to […] Click here to view original…

A leading property solicitor has warned that the industry must put pressure on lenders to take a more reasonable approach to ESW1 certificates, the controversial certification framework brought in during the post-Grenfell cladding crisis. Susanna Caulfield is a senior associate in the Real Estate Group at Rosling King LLP. […] Click here to view original…

Firm says issue helped send profit slumping more than 60% last year Willmott Dixon has again been forced to make a provision of more than £5m to carry out possible repair work on cladding following the Grenfell Tower fire four years ago, taking the amount it is having to […] Click here to view original…

THE Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors is urging mortgage providers to formally adopt its guidance on cladding external wall systems, which was updated in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster. A RICS spokesman said: “The guidance was published to provide a clear framework for when an EWS assessment […] Click here to view original…

Relying on new archive documents and interviews with some of the key players, Peter Apps reveals the untold story of how the opportunity to avert the cladding crisis was lost in the 1990s. Garnock Court in Irvine, and Knowsley Heights in Merseyside (pictures: Alamy and Getty) Sharelines On the […] Click here to view original…