‘Our desperate families are just numbers on a spreadsheet to tower block owners’
Families living in unsafe tower blocks say they feel like “numbers on a spreadsheet”, seven years after ministers vowed to remove flammable cladding from Britain’s high-rises. Thousands of blocks of flats still haven’t had dangerous cladding removed despite 72 lives being lost in the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Housing Secretary […]Click here to view original web…
Cladding assessments should be finished by end of autumn, says minister
The Scottish Government’s housing minister has said he hopes the assessment of buildings with potentially combustible cladding will be finished by the end of the autumn. ADVERTISEMENT – CONTINUE READING BELOW Paul McLennan said assessments are due to begin shortly and work to remediate any unsafe cladding will start […] Click here to view original…
Leeds flat owners still waiting for safe cladding post-Grenfell
Image caption, Rachael Loftus is a member of campaign group The Leeds Cladding Scandal Michelle Lyons BBC News Julia Bryson BBC News Published5 September 2024 People living in high-rise flats covered in flammable cladding said they were still waiting for their homes to be made safe – more than […] Click here to view original…
Dangerous cladding removal to be speeded up, Rayner vows
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner promises to speed up the removal of dangerous cladding from high rise buildings. Angela Rayner, Deputy PM and Housing Secretary She was speaking the day after a scathing inquiry report into the Grenfell Tower fire disaster listed a catalogue of failings. Law change Rayner, […] Click here to view original…
Angela Rayner: Removing dangerous cladding on buildings not happening ‘quickly enough’
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner said the Met Police and Crown Prosecution Service must act “as quickly as possible” over the Grenfell Tower disaster, as ITV News’ Social Affairs Correspondent Sarah Corker reports The government is examining the recommendations of the seven-year probe into the Grenfell Tower fire, following […] Click here to view original…
Cladding boss denies contributing to Grenfell disaster
Claude Wehrle worked for cladding manufacturer Arconic A cladding company boss heavily criticised by the Grenfell Tower inquiry has denied playing a part in the disaster. Claude Wehrle, the former head of the technical sales support team at manufacturer Arconic, told BBC News the deaths of 72 people was […] Click here to view original…
City flats with flammable cladding ‘still unsafe’
Rachael Loftus is a member of campaign group The Leeds Cladding Scandal [BBC] People living in high-rise flats covered in flammable cladding said they were still waiting for their homes to be made safe – more than four years after they were told they were hazardous. Rachael Loftus moved […] Click here to view original…
Seven years after Grenfell Tower disaster cladding is still being removed from buildings here
-Credit: (Image: Joseph Raynor/ Nottingham Post) Flammable cladding is still being removed from buildings housing hundreds of Nottinghamshire residents, seven years after the horrific fire at Grenfell Tower . The fire at the 24-storey block of flats killed 72 people in 2017, with the high-rise’s cladding being the principal […] Click here to view original…
Angela Rayner criticises pace of taking down unsafe cladding seven years after Grenfell fire
‘Greed had been put before safety’ ‘Greed had been put before safety’ The deputy prime minister has said she is unhappy with how long it is taking to remove unsafe cladding from buildings following the Grenfell Tower fire. Angela Rayner, who is also the housing secretary, said the government […] Click here to view original…
Seven years after Grenfell Tower disaster cladding is still being removed from buildings here
The Castle Exchange building in Broad Street, Hockley, Nottingham Flammable cladding is still being removed from buildings housing hundreds of Nottinghamshire residents, seven years after the horrific fire at Grenfell Tower . The fire at the 24-storey block of flats killed 72 people in 2017, with the high-rise’s cladding […] Click here to view original…
Actor whose own home has unsafe cladding hopes tragedy will not strike again
‘Allo ‘Allo! star Arthur Bostrom, who lives in an apartment with unsafe cladding and other fire safety issues, has said he hopes tragic incidents like the Grenfell Tower fire “won’t happen again”. A long-awaited report was released on Wednesday which stated that the devastating Grenfell Tower fire which killed […] Click here to view original…
Rayner says unsafe cladding must be removed faster
Image source, Adam Durbin BBC News Published2 hours ago Housing Secretary Angela Rayner has said it is “not acceptable” that more than 2,000 buildings still need to have unsafe cladding removed. She vowed to put pressure on developers to carry out the works following the release of a damning […] Click here to view original…