Cladding tax on new homes delayed for a year
Reuters A general view of a high-rise public housing building with new cladding applied to its exterior, in the Chalcots Estate in the Swiss Cottage area of north central London within the Camden Borough, Britain November 8, 2024 Ministers have delayed a tax to fund the removal of unsafe […]Click here to view original web…
Cladding removal plan not ambitious enough, say MPs
Dangerous cladding being removed from flats in Slough, Berkshire The government still does not know how many buildings in England have dangerous cladding, the costs of removing it, or the length of time it will take, according to a committee of MPs. In a report, the Public Accounts Committee, […] Click here to view original…
Light Science Technologies CEO on Injecta Fire Barrier solution to UK’s unsafe cladding dilemma
Light Science Technologies Holdings PLC (AIM:LST) CEO Simon Deacon talked with Proactive’s Stephen Gunnion about the significant opportunity surrounding the company’s Injecta Fire Barrier solution, particularly in light of ongoing fire safety issues in the UK’s residential building sector. Deacon highlighted that the UK still has more than 33,000 […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis drags on eight years after Grenfell
Eight years after the tragic Grenfell Tower blaze, the cladding crisis nightmare continues, leaving countless residents in limbo, a Parliamentary committee reports. A scathing report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has slammed the Government for failing to grasp the full scope of hazardous buildings, the staggering costs involved, […] Click here to view original…
‘I had a woman visit me in absolute tears – she is stuck in a flat like Grenfell’
Labour MP Uma Kumaran has said she is bombarded by horror stories from her constituents being trapped in buildings with dangerous cladding – eight years after the Grenfell fire Comments News Sophie Huskisson Political Correspondent People are still living in buildings with dangerous cladding – eight years after the […] Click here to view original…
‘Complacent’ government could miss deadline to remove flammable cladding
The government is at risk of not delivering on its promise of remediating cladding on all buildings over 18 metres by 2029, The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has warned. As it stands up to 7,000 unsafe buildings are yet to be identified, and government has yet to […] Click here to view original…
Cladding remediation won’t hit 2029 target say Public Accounts Committee
Image of a high rise building The government is unlikely to hit its target of resolving the cladding crisis by 2029 with progress ‘painfully slow’ and many barriers still to address, including identifying all buildings affected, which could be as many as 12,000 in total. Work is yet to […] Click here to view original…
‘Complacent’ government could miss deadline to remove flammable cladding
The government is at risk of not delivering on its promise of remediating cladding on all buildings over 18 metres by 2029, The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has warned. As it stands up to 7,000 unsafe buildings are yet to be identified, and government has yet to […] Click here to view original…
Residents trapped by the cladding scandal deserve more help
The legacy of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 is still with us TOLGA AKMEN/AFP/GETTY IMAGES To be immobilised in a disaster not of your own making, and whose remedy lies beyond your control, is a particular form of hell. Yet this is the experience of up to three […] Click here to view original…
Govt ‘at risk of not delivering’ plan to remediate cladding, say MPs
The government could potentially fail in its plan to remediate cladding on all buildings by 2029, MPs have warned. A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said the target to complete works on all buildings 12 years after the Grenfell fire partly relied on new legislation, and said […] Click here to view original…
England: Multiple post-Grenfell cladding failures highlighted in stinging Public Accounts Committee report
The UK Parliament’s Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has hit out at a series of failed measures to address the cladding crisis in England with thousands of unsafe buildings still yet to be identified eight years on from Grenfell and a serious under-estimation of the impact its policies are having […] Click here to view original…
Government’s plan to address cladding crisis is not ambitious enough, report finds
Eight years on from Grenfell, the government still does not know how many buildings have dangerous cladding, how much it will cost to remediate these buildings or how long it will take, reveals a damning report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC). In the report, which was published today […] Click here to view original…