Trove Court and Kennedy House External wall cladding will be removed and replaced at five Thanet council housing blocks. The works will be carried out at Trove Court, Kennedy House, Harbour Towers, Staner Court in Ramsgate and Invicta House in Margate. A change of fire procedures has also been […]Click here to view original web…

Housing contractor 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 […] Click here to view original…

Many face expensive bills for remedial work on their flats in the wake of the Grenfell fire The review of fire-safety guidance following the Grenfell Tower disaster has left hundreds of thousands of leaseholders facing expensive remedial work to bring their flats up to the standards now required. Many […] Click here to view original…

ACM cladding at Prospect Place is being removed, but further investigation work is needed at the site “Unreasonable” delays to financial help for fire safety problems in high rise flats has prompted a threat of legal action against the Welsh government. In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, […] Click here to view original…

Grenfell contractors accused of ‘selective’ customer satisfaction data collection Midland housing associations complete home swap deal Salvation Army teams up with developer for homeless housing partnership Public and private sector must partner more to boost supply in London, research finds Homes England spends £175m acquiring sites for 7,400 homes […] Click here to view original…

Cladding being replaced on a local building A local MP has responded to questions raised by anguished property leaseholders that are ‘trapped’ in flats that they cannot sell. There are hundreds of residents living in high-rise buildings in Milton Keynes that are deemed unsafe due to the cladding that […] Click here to view original…

The Grenfell Tower during the blaze 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 a wide range of solutions to the problem, with many people in the […] Click here to view original…

Getty Images The government will miss a June deadline to complete applications for £5bn of funding to remove flammable cladding in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The BBC understands most managing agents who administer tower blocks with the cladding are refusing to sign contracts with the government. […] Click here to view original…

(5) RESIDENTS living in a social housing tower block say the noise caused by cladding replacement work is so bad they’ve been forced to take medication. Construction work at Grafton Court, managed by housing association Trafford Housing Trust (THT), is set to end this September. But some residents say […] Click here to view original…

ACM cladding at Prospect Place is being removed, but further investigation work is needed at the site “Unreasonable” delays to financial help for fire safety problems in high rise flats has prompted a threat of legal action against the Welsh government. In the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, […] Click here to view original…

Leaseholders at a Manchester development celebrated victory in 2019 when it was announced that their dangerous cladding would be remediated. But now, they are back to square one. Dominic Brady reports Leaseholders at the Green Quarter development in Manchester are facing another wave of remediation work (picture: Alamy) Sharelines […] Click here to view original…

You’d have to have been living under a rock to have missed the jaw-dropping images of the Nine Elms sky pool, which made international headlines when it opened last month. The pool, suspended between two skyscrapers in London’s Embassy Gardens, welcomed its first visitors as a scorching heatwave hit […] Click here to view original…