Dozens of buildings with Grenfell cladding won’t be fixed this year, says MHCLG
Almost 70 buildings with dangerous cladding of the kind installed at Grenfell Tower are unlikely to be fully remediated until next year at the earliest, according to the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government. MHCLG perm sec Jeremy Pocklington made the admission in a letter to members of […]Click here to view original web…
Mum and baby ‘on the breadline’ after first home valued at zero over Grenfell cladding
No compatible source was found for this media. A mum and her newborn are ‘living on the breadline’ after her ‘beautiful’ first flat was deemed ‘worthless’ thanks to its Grenfell-style cladding. Jessica Jairath saved for a decade to be able to buy her first home but is now close […] Click here to view original…
Family caught up in cladding scandal whose family home ‘feels like a prison’ lend voice to powerful film projected onto Houses of Parliament
Campaigners aim to march through London in September in protest at the government’s handling of the crisis A protest banner hanging from Peckham’s Cooperative House, an L&Q block affected by cladding A family from Peckham trapped in an ‘unsellable’ shared ownership flat due to fire safety flaws has lent […] Click here to view original…
Ballymore ‘too slow’ on cladding removal: British PM
Boris Johnson said Ballymore, the Irish building firm, was moving “too slow” to remove cladding, which was deemed to be a risk following the Grenfell Tower fire, pictured, in 2017. Picture: Getty Ballymore, the Irish building firm, has been “too slow” in its response to the flammable cladding crisis, […] Click here to view original…
‘Footing the bill for the cladding crisis will cost more than my flat’
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…
Disgraced ministers must act on the cladding scandal
Many are now facing cladding removal bills that exceed the value of their flats Anybody who reads our reports today on how the cladding scandal is still affecting ordinary people must realise a huge injustice is unfolding in this country. Until the Grenfell Tower fire four years ago, they […] Click here to view original…
Flat Owners ‘Prisoners’ In Ongoing Cladding Nightmare
Reserve funds raided to pay for replacement cladding are predicted to cause a surge in dilapidated homes. While management firms’ emergency funds are drained to pay for the removal of dangerous cladding, desperate leaseholders will be forced to inhabit dilapidated buildings with rising service charges and falling property values. […] Click here to view original…
Flammable Cladding Fixes On Track for NSW Buildings
Remediation work to remove highly flammable cladding from high-risk buildings in NSW is moving ahead. Fifty strata communities of the 214 eligible residential apartment buildings in the state have registered for the NSW government’s three-year program, dubbed Project Remediate. The initiative provides a 10-year interest-free loan, expert assurance and […] Click here to view original…
Willmott Dixon earmarks £10m for cladding costs
Grenfell caretakers forced to ‘cut corners’ due to time pressures, inquiry hears Nearly half of all social sector building safety fund claims rejected Thousands of leaseholders are still facing cladding bills Landlords see rise in ‘fitness for human habitation’ claims from ‘PPI-style’ legal firms KCTMO received multiple warnings about […] Click here to view original…
‘We’re witnessing history repeating itself’ – Cladding victims tell their stories four years on from Grenfell
“We’ve even discussed packing an escape bag, full of our passports and other important documents in case we need to run,” admits Ivan Uzunov, 31. Ivan is a retail store manager who lives in a two-bedroom flat in Kennington. As he lays in bed at night, with his partner […] Click here to view original…
Protesters occupy cladding company to demand justice for Grenfell
Campaign group Palestine Action has occupied the company that provided flammable Grenfell cladding on the fourth anniversary of the tragedy. Demonstrators have attempted to shut down Arconic, which provided the cladding for Grenfell Tower. The group is also protesting the company selling materials to Israel for fighter jets. This […] Click here to view original…