The Novotel and Ibis hotels Plans have been submitted to replace dangerous cladding at two hotels in the town centre. The 14-storey Ibis and Novotel hotels on Friar Street have cladding which is “unsafe in the event of fire”. Building owner Accor Invest has applied to the council to […]Click here to view original web…

No choice: Natalie Carter says she can no longer afford to live in New Providence Wharf due to the £8,000 annual service charge but is unable to sell N ext week London marks a grim anniversary. Four years ago on June 14, a fire broke out at Grenfell Tower […] Click here to view original…

Cladiators in Manchester demanded safety on Saturday Thousands of flat owners and housing activists protested last Saturday across Britain over the cladding and fire safety scandal. Protesters demanded that developers are made to pay to make buildings safe. Leaseholders are facing charges to have flammable cladding removed, and repair […] Click here to view original…

Grenfell contractors accused of ‘selective’ customer satisfaction data collection Number of homelessness applications in Scotland fell by almost 10% during pandemic Salvation Army teams up with developer for homeless housing partnership Public and private sector must partner more to boost supply in London, research finds Aberdeen Council told to […] Click here to view original…

Disabled leaseholder Sarah Rennie converted her Birmingham flat to suit her needs but is now facing ongoing bills to live in it safely Birmingham leaseholder Sarah Rennie adapted her flat to her life-long needs but building safety defects have left her feeling betrayed. Image credit: Supplied Sarah Rennie’s flat […] Click here to view original…

Unmesh Desai spoke to the Met about policing the Euros as fans watch the England v Scotland UEFA Euro 2020 match I recently attended a resident protest outside a development at the old West Ham football ground in Upton Park, alongside Stephen Timms MP. The national situation over unsafe […] Click here to view original…

Nova House in Buckingham Garden COSTS to replace Grenfell-style cladding and installation of further safety measures at a former office block turned flats has spiked to £17.8 million. The bill to remove the dangerous aluminium composite material cladding as well as adding additional safety measures at Nova House , […] Click here to view original…

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 Welsh capital living in unsafe buildings […] Click here to view original…

Thank you for the powerful and graphic article on the cladding scandal , with pictures of families showing the huge bills they face (News, last week). Would it now be possible to publish details and images (where appropriate) of the developers, designers, builders, makers of the faulty products and […] Click here to view original…

Nova House in Buckingham Garden COSTS to replace Grenfell-style cladding and installation of further safety measures at a former office block turned flats has spiked to £17.8 million. The bill to remove the dangerous aluminium composite material cladding as well as adding additional safety measures at Nova House , […] Click here to view original…

Lee Taylor, 41, a travel consultant, still sleeps on the floor of his three-year-old son’s room in case of fire at his Manchester home. In the same block, Connect House, Ashar Ali, 37, a teaching assistant who grew up in care from the age of four, is bracing himself […] Click here to view original…

Flat owners are suffering from severe stress, anxiety and depression as the building safety crisis wreaks havoc with their finances, new Which? research reveals. Our social media survey of more than 1,700 affected leaseholders has laid bare the devastating mental health impact of the crisis, with almost all respondents […] Click here to view original…