Nick Morrey: Implementation of RICS cladding guidance is in valuers hands
Valuers will be deciding the implementation of RICS cladding guidance according to Nick Morrey, product technical manager at John Charcol. On 8 March, the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) revealed new guidance relating to cladding. The guidance clarifies which types of properties will, and will not, require additional […]Click here to view original web…
Tory MPs urged to rebel over fire safety costs for cladding covered buildings
Conservative MPs are being urged to rebel and defeat the Government over who should foot the bill for key fire safety improvements following the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The House of Commons will consider a proposal from peers to prevent remedial costs for work, such as the removal of unsafe […] 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…
Fire Safety Bill: Tory MPs told to stop tenants paying for cladding removal
Tory MPs are under pressure to ensure tenants don’t need to pay for the removal of flammable cladding in a vote on the Fire Safety Bill. 72 people died during the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017. Credit: Wikimedia Commons (Natalie Oxford) Conservative MPs are under pressure to ensure tenants […] Click here to view original…
Court continues liberal approach to time bars for combustible cladding claims
A recent judgment from the UK’s Technology and Construction Court (“TCC”) has again highlighted how the courts are willing to adopt a flexible approach to time bars in combustible cladding cases. In Martlet Homes Ltd v Mulalley and Co Ltd¹ , the TCC allowed an amended claim that the […] Click here to view original…
Cladding scandal will soon slam into the housing market, warn conveyancers
Solicitors have warned that the government’s reluctance to intervene fully in the cladding scandal created by the Grenfell Tower fire and help all the leaseholders caught up in the debacle is beginning to cause major problems in the housing market. The Society of Licensed Conveyancers (SLC) is worried that […] 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…
Salford councillors accused of ‘pure hypocrisy’ over cladding crisis
Salford councillors have been accused of ‘pure hypocrisy’ as they criticised the government’s handling of the cladding crisis while tenants in council-owned blocks in Pendleton are still waiting for flammable cladding to be replaced. The ruling Labour group threw its support behind cladding campaigners and called on the government […] Click here to view original…
Fed-up residents take housing trust to task over four YEAR delay in removing dangerous cladding
Residents of Trafford’s tower blocks have taken authorities to task over delays in the removal and replacement of dangerous cladding. Those living in Pickford, Clifford, Empress, Princess and Grafton Court social housing blocks in Stretford, managed by Trafford Housing Trust, said they have been worried since the Grenfell fire […] Click here to view original…
Tory MPs urged to rebel over fire safety costs for cladding covered buildings
The drive comes after the Grenfell fire tragedy Conservative MPs are being urged to rebel and defeat the Government over who should foot the bill for key fire safety improvements following the Grenfell Tower tragedy. The House of Commons will consider a proposal from peers to prevent remedial costs […] 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…
Tory MPs urged to rebel over cost of cladding safety improvements
Conservative MPs are being urged to rebel and defeat the Government over who should foot the bill for key fire safety improvements. Conservative MPs are being urged to rebel and defeat the Government over who should foot the bill for key fire safety improvements following the Grenfell Tower tragedy. […] Click here to view original…