Fears over cladding costs behind Bellway’s decision to drop Crest bid
Bellway first bid to take over the Surrey-headquartered developer in June, making an all-share offer valuing the company at £667 – 253p per share London-listed housebuilder Bellway has reportedly cited fears of Crest Nicholson’s costs to fix hazardous cladding as part of reasoning for pulling out of its £720m […]Click here to view original web…
Delays to replace unsafe cladding at Runcorn apartments The Decks
Runcorn MP Mike Amesbury with residents of The Deck (Image: Mike Amesbury MP) RESIDENTS at a Runcorn apartment complex face more delays over the replacement of flammable building materials. Remediation at The Deck is part of a national programme following the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, involving combustible cladding, that […] Click here to view original…
Up to 7,000 unsafe buildings have not applied for cladding safety scheme, minister says
Up to 7,000 buildings that require remediation have not yet applied for the government’s cladding safety scheme, the building safety minister has said. Building safety minister Rushanara Ali: “Counting the buildings we know about is not enough” (picture: BBC Parliament) Sharelines Up to 7,000 unsafe buildings have not applied […] Click here to view original…
Brighton: Residents fear cladding which causes fire risk
Residents at a block of flats which failed fire safety assessments said they want to speak out about the risks “before it’s too late”. Jamie Gunn has lived in Sheffield Court in Brighton’s City Point for 15 years. The development failed fire safety checks in 2021 in the wake […] Click here to view original…
Brighton: Residents fear cladding which causes fire risk
Residents at a block of flats which failed fire safety assessments said they want to speak out about the risks “before it’s too late”. Jamie Gunn has lived in Sheffield Court in Brighton’s City Point for 15 years. The development failed fire safety checks in 2021 in the wake […] Click here to view original…
Over 5,000 high-rise buildings in Scotland still covered with flammable cladding
Research from Diamond & Company has found that around 5,500 private and public buildings across Scotland taller than 11m (36ft) have still flammable cladding The nine-storey Aurora Apartments in Aberdeen are one of several ‘high priority’ buildings in Scotland to be identified as having flammable cladding in the Scottish […] Click here to view original…
Welsh cabinet secretary to meet with cladding campaigners over delays to high-rise safety works
Cladding campaigners say work to make high rise buildings across Wales safer is taking too long The new Welsh cabinet secretary for housing has agreed to meet with cladding campaigners after they complained that work to make high rise buildings fire-safe is taking too long. Welsh Cladiators wrote to […] Click here to view original…
Survey identifies thousands of at-risk high-rises with flammable cladding
New research published in the wake of the damning 1,700-page Grenfell report has illustrated the ongoing challenge posed by flammable cladding on high-rise buildings. Building surveyors and fire engineers Diamond & Company has identified approximately 5,500 structures of five storeys and more in Scotland alone which are believed to […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell cladding money mostly spent on other things, Scottish Government admits
72 people died following the Grenfell Tower fire The Scottish Government has admitted most of a £97million pot of cash given to it by Westminster to fix unsafe cladding after the Grenfell disaster has been spent on other things. And seven years after the tragedy in London, which claimed […] Click here to view original…
“We’re living in fear”: Brighton residents prolonged wait for dangerous cladding to be removed
More than 200 residents at City Point in Brighton must wait until summer 2025 – at least – for work to remove the cladding to start. WATCH ITV Meridian’s Report is by Charlotte Wilkins Millie Windsor is one of over 200 resents living in the City Point Development in […] Click here to view original…
Welsh cabinet secretary to meet with cladding campaigners over delays to high-rise safety works
Cladding campaigners say work to make high rise buildings across Wales safer is taking too long The new Welsh cabinet secretary for housing has agreed to meet with cladding campaigners after they complained that work to make high rise buildings fire-safe is taking too long. Welsh Cladiators wrote to […] Click here to view original…
Flammable cladding present on ‘thousands’ of Scottish high-rises, research reveals
Cladding has been replaced on the Aurora Apartments in Aberdeen More than 5,000 ‘high-rise buildings’ in Scotland, including landmark developments such as Glasgow Harbour and Edinburgh’s Western Harbour, are estimated to be covered in flammable cladding, it has been revealed. Using information gathered over several years from their extensive […] Click here to view original…