Cladding: Surveyor guidance provides hope for thousands of mortgage prisoners
RICS guidance should lead to a sharp fall in the number of fire safety tests required by those looking to sell a flat. We are almost four years on now from the Grenfell disaster, and yet its impacts continue to be felt in the housing market. Indeed, it has […]Click here to view original web…
Combustible cladding set to be removed from block of flats in Cardiff
Galleon House, Atlantic Wharf, where combustible cladding is set to be removed. Picture: Alex Seabrook Alex Seabrook, local democracy reporter Combustible cladding on a block of flats in Cardiff is now set to be removed due to fire safety concerns. The block of flats, Galleon House, 119–245 Galleon Way, […] Click here to view original…
New Guidance on Cladding & New Levies: Solving the Cladding Problem One Step at a Time
It is difficult to forget images of Grenfell Tower burning. Nearly four years later and the “Grenfell Forever In Our Hearts” sign on the building still looms over North Kensington as a stark reminder of the flammable cladding and those who lost their lives in the tragedy. Since then, […] Click here to view original…
Arsenal football club should take responsibility for ‘fire trap’ flats that have unsafe cladding, wooden balconies and missing fire breaks, Jeremy Corbyn says
Arsenal football club should foot the bill for ‘fire trap’ flats that have unsafe cladding, wooden balconies and missing fire breaks, according to Jeremy Corbyn . The MP and former leader of the Labour Party said the club should bear ‘responsibility’ after leaseholders at Queensland Road and Highbury Square […] Click here to view original…
Warning on cladding TEN YEARS before Grenfell fire: Firm that made panels was told of the risk of a deadly inferno a decade before the tragedy
The firm which made the Grenfell Tower cladding was warned that a fire in a building fitted with the product would kill ‘60 to 70’ people – a decade before the disaster. Gerard Sonntag, a former marketing manager at Arconic, sent an internal memo in 2007 with the chilling […] Click here to view original…
“It’s not just a cladding issue” – Fire industry calls for funding to address wider safety faults in high-rise buildings
The wider fire industry, including the ASFP and FPA, is supporting calls for greater funding to be provided to address fire safety failings that have been identified in tall buildings. The calls come following the announcement of additional funding of £3.5b from the Government to help address cladding remediation […] Click here to view original…
MP hits out as cladding work begins on Bradford buildings
A BRADFORD MP has criticised “the Government for failing to deal with the cladding crisis” after work has only just started on two Bradford buildings which were evacuated two years ago. Contractors began removing the Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding from Appleton Point, on Hamm Strasse, and Landmark House, […] Click here to view original…
Cladding guidance causes a mixed reaction
New External Wall System (EWS) guidance has had a mixed reception. Government and industry bodies have welcomed the update, but campaigners allege it overlooks those who are already living in unsafe buildings. The guidance is aimed at helping leaseholders sell properties with external cladding and is due to be […] Click here to view original…
Cladding: Seven Basingstoke blocks fail fire safety tests
Three blocks at Victory Hill in Basingstoke have failed cladding tests, The Gazette can reveal. SEVEN blocks of flats in Basingstoke have failed fire safety checks in the last twelve months, The Gazette can reveal. It comes one month after this newspaper reported how Crown Heights, on Alencon Link, […] Click here to view original…
Cladding scandal could lead to modest RMBS losses and negative equity – DBRS Morningstar
The cladding crisis has resulted in risk of adding £140 to high-rise flat owners’ monthly mortgage payments and producing losses on sale of repossessed properties by residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS) pools, DBRS Morningstar has said. Analysis from DBRS Morningstar on the impact of cladding looked at 64 securitised UK […] Click here to view original…
Cladding claims and post-limitation amendments
Last year there were two Technology and Construction Court (TCC) cases on the very topical issue of limitation in fire safety cladding claims. Sportscity v Countryside Properties [2020] EWHC 1591 (TCC) and RG Securities v R Maskell [2020] EWHC 1646 (TCC) both concerned summary judgment applications by developers against […] Click here to view original…
Cladding Crisis: Liverpool MP fearful of “another Grenfell”
The cladding crisis continues to plague leaseholders who fear for their safety / Neil Martin via Unsplash A Liverpool politician has raised fears of “another Grenfell” amid further disappointment for residents affected by the ongoing cladding crisis. Seventy two people lost their lives in the Grenfell Tower fire in […] Click here to view original…