I live in a block of flats with dangerous cladding and can’t afford the potential £40,000 bill to get it removed, what can I do?
I live in a leasehold flat with dangerous cladding and face a repair bill of £40,000 to get it removed and replaced with safe materials. I’m unable to pay this on top of my mortgage. What happens if I miss my mortgage repayments for several months in a row […] Click here to view original…
Forced to sell their homes at any price: Banks refuse to mortgage flats over cladding fears in the wake of the Grenfell fire
Homeowners stuck in flats they cannot sell due to a red-tape nightmare are now so desperate they are flogging their properties at enormous discounts. Lenders have been refusing to offer mortgages on tens of thousands of homes after new safety rules were introduced in the wake of the Grenfell […] Click here to view original…
Building safety minister criticised after he says leaseholders will have to pay some cladding costs
Residents trapped in blocks with dangerous cladding have reacted angrily to comments from the building safety minister after he said the government expects leaseholders to pay for some of the remediation costs to make their buildings safe… Click here to view original web page at www.insidehousing.co.uk
Cladding fears following Grenfell
A Leeds flat owner campaigning to remove Grenfell Tower-type cladding believes the government is “pretending to listen” to millions of people trapped in accommodation that is a fire risk. In 2017 account manager Abigail Tubis and her husband spent £164,000 on their two-bedroomed city centre property, believing it would […] Click here to view original…
1,000 people including 700 students told to leave homes in London tower blocks immediately over cladding & safety fears
ABOUT 1,000 people are being asked to “immediately” quit their homes in six London tower blocks amid cladding and building safety fears. Residents of the flats in the Paragon estate in Brentford, including nearly 700 students, will be offered alternative accommodation until the buildings are declared safe. The Paragon […] Click here to view original…
Residents asked to leave London blocks immediately over safety concerns
Almost 900 people living in a six-block development in London are being moved out immediately because of serious safety concerns relating to the construction of the buildings. The residents, the majority of whom are students, were told at 11am on Monday that they would have to leave their homes […] Click here to view original…
Housing association to evacuate 1,000-home modular development due to ‘multitude’ of fire safety issues
A housing association will evacuate 858 residents from a modular west London development, after intrusive inspections identified fire safety issues so serious that the safety of residents can no longer be guaranteed. Click here to view original web page at www.insidehousing.co.uk
Grenfell cladding scandal exposed as 1.5million trapped in fire risk hell
Rhiannon Creasey faced £45,000 after her block failed a safety test. She is pictured outside the North London block where she bought her apartment after construction was completed in 2014. A recent survey shows the cladding on the building does not pass fire safety checks and could cost millions […] Click here to view original…
Concerns raised over mental health impact of Welsh cladding scandal
Campaigners have raised concerns over the mental health impact on residents living in buildings with combustible cladding. Thousands of people across Wales live in buildings wrapped in dangerous cladding or with other fire safety issues, according to the Wales Leaseholder Action Group. […] Click here to view original web page at www.walesonline.co.uk
Cladding: Forged signatures on more flats’ fire certificates
A forged signature was found on a fire safety certificate for Century Wharf near Cardiff Bay At least 15 more forged fire safety certificates have been linked to a company in Caerphilly county. Responding to concerns of fraudulent EWS1 forms raised in the Senedd, the first minister said police […] Click here to view original…
At least 15 more forged fire safety certificates linked to Welsh company
Century Wharf in Cardiff. At least 15 more forged fire safety certificates have been linked to a company in Wales. After an investigation by WalesOnline revealed a forged signature was found on the fire safety certificate for a Cardiff block of flats, more evidence has surfaced about the wider extent of the problem. […] Click here to…
Number of tower blocks in London with 24-hour fire patrol doubles
image captionGrenfell Tower fire in June 2017 where 72 people died The number of blocks of flats in London which require round-the-clock monitoring due to potentially unsafe building materials has nearly doubled in seven months, the fire service said. The London Fire Brigade, which makes fortnightly checks on the […] Click here to view original…