On the 10th of February, Robert Jenrick, the Housing Secretary, announced an extra £3.5billion grant to assist leaseholders in removing dangerous cladding from all high rises above 18 metres, funded partly by a general tax on property developers. This tax will accumulate £2 billion over the next decade, and […]Click here to view original web…

Cladding crisis Rocketing fire safety costs are forcing leaseholders to accept up to £200,000 price discounts from cash buyers as the cladding scandal threatens the wider housing market…. To continue reading Already a subscriber? Log in Enjoy unlimited access to all articles Choose from all our exclusive newsletters Unlock […] Click here to view original…

Firefighters tackled a blaze at Metis tower in Sheffield, which is covered in Grenfell-style cladding Firefighters tackled a ninth-floor fire at a Sheffield flat block covered in Grenfell-style flammable cladding. Emergency services were called to the Metis building in Scotland Street at 3.40pm on Thursday following an accidental fire […] Click here to view original…

Ipswich Borough Council will write to Government calling for more support Last updated 34 minutes ago Ipswich councillors from across the political divide have united in backing more than 1,800 Ipswich flat residents in their plight to seek answers to the country’s cladding crisis. Ipswich Borough Council unanimously backed […] Click here to view original…

Aluminium composite cladding was implicated in the catastrophic Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people in June 2017 The British government has been accused of trying to cover up a “national scandal” by telling local councils it was “appropriate” to block the release of information about high-rise buildings that […] Click here to view original…

The Intermediary Mortgage Lenders Association (IMLA) is calling for the Chancellor to flexibly wind down the stamp duty holiday to ensure the ‘cliff-edge’ isn’t simply postponed until the end of June. At the same time the association said the Chancellor should further support victims of unsafe cladding when announcing […] Click here to view original…

Ipswich councillors from across the political divide have united in backing more than 1,800 Ipswich flat residents in their plight to seek answers to the country’s cladding crisis. Ipswich Borough Council unanimously backed a motion at its meeting on Wednesday night calling for the government to take action on […] Click here to view original…

Cllr Judith Blake is stepping down as the Leader of Leeds City Council following her appointment to the House of Lords. I have had the privilege of working with Judith over many years in her roles both as a Middleton Ward councillor and as Council Leader and I just […] Click here to view original…

Welsh renters given stronger protections against Section 21 evictions Chartering a better future for residents Work with women who need flexibility, instead of making them fit a mould Senior BRE technician denies knowledge of secret fire-resisting boards in Grenfell insulation test Fire in housing association home kills two adults […] Click here to view original…

But Arconic continued selling Reynobond PE panels in the UK until a week after the Grenfell Tower fire A manager at the manufacturer that sold combustible ACM panels to be used on the Grenfell Tower refurbishment warned colleagues two years before the fatal fire that the cladding was dangerous […] Click here to view original…

Northern Ireland eviction protections extended until end of September Analysis reveals landlords slowest to comply with Housing Ombudsman orders What do the changes to the Fire Safety Bill mean? Arconic allowed post-Grenfell certificate for cladding to repeat false fire test claim Church of England poised to make ‘widespread and […] Click here to view original…

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