Party leader proposes ‘a clear and fair long-term plan to resolve the cladding crisis’
Ahead of the London Mayoral election in May, the leader of Reform UK, Richard Tice, has unveiled alternative proposals to help resolve the cladding crisis across the UK. He claims that under his party’s plan, no property owners will suffer financial loss from dangerous and inadequate cladding installation, with […]Click here to view original web…
Unsafe cladding could pose fire risk to BBC studios home to Look North and Radio Humberside
Queens Court, Hull City Centre Unsafe cladding found to pose a fire risk to a Hull building that is home to BBC studios and the 100 flats neighbouring it has triggered urgent efforts to make the building safe in the wake of the Grenfell disaster. A 24-hour fire patrol […] Click here to view original…
Reform UK announces alternative proposals to resolve cladding crisis
Political party Reform UK has unveiled alternative proposals to help resolve the cladding crisis across the UK and to ensure that no property owners suffer financial loss from “dangerous and inadequate cladding installation, with builders, regulators and the government picking up the tab”. In the wake of the Grenfell […] Click here to view original…
Lifelong Tory voters abandoning party over cladding crisis
Lifelong Conservative voters caught up in the building safety crisis are abandoning the party after its MPs voted against protecting leaseholders from potentially crippling costs to fix fire risks discovered after the Grenfell Tower fire . After the , it emerged that hundreds of tower blocks were wrapped in […] Click here to view original…
More than a quarter of cladding safety certificates ‘invalid’
A new survey of cladding safety forms finds more than a quarter are being signed by individuals who ‘aren’t qualified. It is a scandal that has already trapped millions of people in worthless, potentially dangerous homes, and the Government has already promised to put up billions of pounds to […] Click here to view original…
Cladding-hit leaseholders consider bankruptcy as govt blocks funding and Grenfell safety rules
A plan to protect leaseholders from extortionate costs of fixing fire safety problems has been rejected in parliament. Thousands of flat owners are facing five and six-figure bills for cladding replacement and other fire safety work on flats they bought in good faith. The building defects were discovered in […] Click here to view original…
MPs reject move to shield residents from fire safety costs
Getty Images MPs have rejected a move to give more protections to leaseholders and tenants in England from footing the bill for fire safety work on buildings. They opposed an attempt by peers to force the government to stump up the cash and recover it from developers. Ministers said […] Click here to view original…
Trafford residents take housing trust to task four year delay in removing dangerous cladding
The ACM cladding panels on the outside of the Citiscape block (Anuj Vats/PA) FAULTY fire alarms, freezing flats and four years of delays and anxiety – residents of Trafford’s tower blocks have taken authorities to task over delays in the removal and replacement of dangerous cladding. Those living in […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell fire-risk cladding replacement at Plymouth block of flats nearly complete
Plymouth Community Homes has revealed when scaffolding will be removed from a Devonport tower block after a fire broke out in a flat last night. Scaffolding remains around Lynher House after the original aluminum composite material – which failed tests ordered by the Government after the tragedy in London […] Click here to view original…
Ministers outline £450m routemap to tackle cladding crisis
Homeowners whose flats have external cladding will be offered free safety assessments to determine which properties have material needing to be removed, as part of a £450 million package of measure to address Scotland’s cladding crisis. The proposal, which paves the way for public funding for remediation, is a […] Click here to view original…
A new regulator
In January 2021, the Government announced the creation of a new national regulator for construction products. The aim is to ensure that homes are constructed using safe materials, a first step in reversing what Dame Hackitt described in her 2018 report on building safety as a “race to the […] Click here to view original…
Potential public sector bans for ‘negligent’ contractors and a cladding tax on building materials?
During Prime Ministers’ Questions on the 17th March 2021, the Prime Minister announced that the government is considering new rules that will exclude contractors who have been deemed grossly professionally negligent from public sector work and “government business”. This comes following further announcements coming out of the Grenfell Tower […] Click here to view original…