Government must foot £15billion bill to fix unsafe cladding on 1.5million homes, says TV property expert Phil Spencer
TV property expert Phil Spencer says the Government needs to pay the bill to renovate up to 1.5million homes with unsafe cladding. He said the situation ‘cannot resolve itself’ and that houseowners – who bought their homes without knowing they were built using dangerous materials – cannot afford to […] Click here to view original…
After Grenfell: British homeowners face bankruptcy to strip unsafe building panels
London, UK Thomson Reuters Foundation When single mother Timea scraped together enough money to buy a two-bedroom flat in London, she looked forward to providing her son with the security of their own home. But two years later, Timea and thousands of other homeowners in Britain face bankruptcy and […] Click here to view original…
Plans to remove dangerous Grenfell-style cladding from Manchester tower blocks submitted – THREE YEARS after residents were first told about it
The City Gate development on Blantyre Street Plans to remove dangerous cladding from tower blocks in Manchester city centre have been submitted – three years after the issues were first identified. Residents of City Gate in Castlefield have lived with the knowledge that their buildings were clad in the […] Click here to view original…
Post-Grenfell cladding work could take until 2029 at current rate, says Labour
Grenfell-style combustible cladding is being replaced so slowly that it could take until 2029 before all buildings are fixed, Labour has said. According to government figures, 249 high-rise apartment blocks are yet to be made completely safe, and the majority of them are still wrapped in dangerous aluminium composite […] Click here to view original…
Richmond & Merton among UK’s slowest to remove Grenfell-style cladding
Fewer than half of buildings with flammable cladding in Merton and Richmond have replaced the dangerous cladding material used on Grenfell Tower, according to new data . Since the government ordered owners of all buildings with flammable aluminium composite material (ACM) to replace the cladding in the wake of […] Click here to view original…
Sheffield couple who moved into perfect first home now ‘trapped in potentially dangerous apartment’
Lauren Steel, 37, and her partner are unable to sell their apartment in Kelham Mills, Kelham Island because they claim their managing agent, Derwent Living, won’t provide them with an ESW1 form that lenders are now requesting before approving funds. The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors brought in the […] Click here to view original…
The flat sales fiasco: How red tape set up in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire has seen 30,000 home moves fall through
When Amie Lewis and Alex Timms found out they were expecting their first baby, they decided it was time to put their one-bedroom flat on the market. Things moved quickly and the couple had accepted an offer on the apartment in Hackney, East London, within a week. They had […] Click here to view original…
Exclusive: 8 UK hospitals are Grenfell-style death traps, an Insider investigation has found
Flames and smoke engulfed the Grenfell Tower apartment block, killing 72 people in West London on June 14, 2017. REUTERS/Toby Melville TPX Six of the eight hospitals told Insider they had not removed or did not plan to remove ACM cladding, the flammable building material related to the Grenfell […] Click here to view original…
MPs demand ministers commit to End Our Cladding Scandal campaign proposals
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Fire chiefs step into row over soaring insurance costs for high-rise flats
Fire chiefs have intervened in the financial crisis affecting hundreds of thousands of high-rise leaseholders by urging insurers to think twice before they raise premiums on towers with fire safety problems. With some leaseholders facing increases of up to 1,200% in building insurance and others unable to get any […] Click here to view original…
Brexit: David Linden raises cladding fears in Internal Market Bill in Commons
Glasgow East MP David Linden AN SNP MP has called on the UK Government to outline the potential consequences of the Internal Market Bill on building standards and regulations in Scotland. The SNP group at Westminster has repeatedly said the bill will lead to a “race to the bottom” […] Click here to view original…
We can’t move because of cladding chaos: How 1.5m homeowners could be stuck for TEN YEARS in unsellable tower block flats
When Keeba Critchlow picked up the keys to her first home in 2014 she was thrilled at becoming a homeowner. Not for a moment did she envisage the nightmare that would await her six years on – unable to sell her one-bedroom flat as a result of red tape […] Click here to view original…