Owners of flats with dangerous cladding face decade-long wait for essential work
William Martin from Sheffield whose apartment is clad in flammable material Flat owners face a 10-YEAR wait for fire-risk cladding to be removed. Only 200 teams are available to do the removal work – typically at a rate of one a year on buildings over 18 metres high. That […]Click here to view original web…
Cladding ban would lead to ‘mortgage crisis’
The SNP is accused of “dithering and have sat on money from the UK government which should have been used to remove unsafe cladding” Banning combustible cladding from buildings will not necessarily save lives but would fuel a “mortgage lending crisis”, the Scottish government claims. In a series of […] Click here to view original…
Ealing MP leads forum on cladding crisis
Dialling in: leaseholders join Rupa Huq and cladding crisis panellists on a video call EALING Central and Acton MP Rupa Huq hosted a virtual round table with people worried about the crisis around cladding on high-rise buildings. Almost 50 Ealing and Acton leaseholders dialled in to listen from panellists […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis: ‘I feel constantly sick and stressed’
Georgie Hulme inherited her third floor flat in Manchester from her mother, who thought she was providing her daughter with home security for life. Since then, inspections of the building in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire have exposed major fire safety problems, including dangerous cladding. Ms Hulme, […] Click here to view original…
Ten-point plan – the future of the cladding crisis unveiled
Government policy and a lack of joined-up thinking are holding back the progress needed to tackle the cladding crisis, particularly in the way it is ‘dragging its feet’ in protecting leaseholders from bearing the costs of remediation, according to a new report. A brand-new cladding crisis report from residential […] Click here to view original…
Ten-point plan – the future of the cladding crisis unveiled
Government policy and a lack of joined-up thinking are holding back the progress needed to tackle the cladding crisis, particularly in the way it is ‘dragging its feet’ in protecting leaseholders from bearing the costs of remediation, according to a new report. A brand-new cladding crisis report from residential […] Click here to view original…
Woman, 76, forced back to work after value of £286k flat slumps to ‘nothing’ because of Grenfell-style cladding
Adeline Tsang outside her flat in Woolwich where she says residents “feel trapped” and are “living in fear” In 1989 Adeline Tsang celebrated her last shift as a nurse manager. A career spanning decades working across hospitals in London and Italy had come to an end. Fast forward 30 […] Click here to view original…
Ealing MP leads forum on cladding crisis
Dialling in: leaseholders join Rupa Huq and cladding crisis panellists on a video call EALING Central and Acton MP Rupa Huq hosted a virtual round table with people worried about the crisis around cladding on high-rise buildings. Almost 50 Ealing and Acton leaseholders dialled in to listen from panellists […] Click here to view original…
Potentially dangerous cladding at Reading flats will be replaced
The Honister and Hewitt buildings Plans to remove and replace potentially dangerous cladding from two blocks of flats have been approved by Reading Borough Council (RBC). The current cladding at the Honister and Hewitt buildings on Chatham Square, 20-40 Alfred Street, will be removed and replaced with “suitable non-combustible […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell-style cladding on Belfast flats complex near bonfire
An apartment block once damaged by an Eleventh Night bonfire has Grenfell-style cladding fitted, Sunday Life can reveal. The 10-storey Victoria Place block in south Belfast will be given the lowest fire safety rating of ‘B2’ of the cladding is not replaced, with residents potentially facing a six-figure bill […] Click here to view original…
Three-quarters of cladding systems on new medium-rise buildings use combustible materials, data shows
G15 landlord hands out £120m contract for seven-year fire remediation programme Grenfell Tower Inquiry diary week 30: ‘There is certainly a high probability that in the event of another fire the whole building can become an inferno’ Leaseholders call for Kingspan to pay for removal of Grenfell insulation from […] Click here to view original…
Why we fight for cladding justice – Baroness Pinnock
Then, following the awful Grenfell tragedy in 2017, you discover that your home is not safe at all. The external walls have been covered in cladding that is not fire proof. In fact your four walls are literally a fire hazard. The consequences for buyers of these leasehold apartments […] Click here to view original…