Simon Lewis: Government funding for unsafe cladding – who really foots the bill?
Womble Bond Dickinson partner Simon Lewis on the continuing discussion around building safety, and particularly the replacement of combustible cladding . Simon Lewis The UK Government’s February 2021 announcement on support measures for affected buildings came against a backdrop of increasing pressure to improve its existing funding arrangements, which […]Click here to view original web…
Call for Scottish Government to offer grants and bonds to solve cladding crisis
The Property Managers Association Scotland has called for the Scottish Government to offer financial assistance to the thousands of flat owners caught up in the ongoing cladding issue. Owners of flats in modern blocks across the UK are receiving mortgage ratings of zero due to fire risks discovered in […] Click here to view original…
Experts question government’s focus on buildings above 18m for cladding funding
First chief inspector of buildings appointed to lead Building Safety Regulator What the Great Fire of London can teach us about the cladding scandal Arconic told all French customers to use more fire-safe product a year before Grenfell Lenders introduce legal clauses preventing tower blocks being used as security […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell Inquiry: Cladding ‘performed spectacularly worse’ than sister product in tests
Tap above to watch video coverage of the Grenfell Inquiry The type of cladding panels fitted on Grenfell Tower performed “spectacularly worse” in fire tests than a sister product despite being marketed under the same fire safety certificate, the inquiry into the disaster has heard. Reynobond PE (polyethylene) cladding […] Click here to view original…
Crown Heights cladding: Council leader pledges support to residents
Crown Heights, Basingstoke. Photo by: Sarah Gaunt. THE COUNCIL leader says the uncertainty residents at Crown Heights are living through is a “travesty” and has pledged to support them. Cllr Ken Rhatigan said that the council “will ensure that whatever is required from us, that we provide and that […] Click here to view original…
Opinion: Government’s cladding scandal plan is too little, too late
It’s a farce that so many homeowners will have to pay to clean up someone else’s mess, writes John Fitzsimons. There is some hope for the millions of homes caught up in the ongoing cladding crisis . The Government has finally got its act together and announced a series […] Click here to view original…
Families face losing homes over fire-risk cladding: Race against time as residents could be kicked out of their homes over £15k a week patrol costs
Residents stuck in unsafe flats face being kicked out of their homes because they cannot afford to pay £15,000 a week for a fire patrol. Families at a ten-storey building in Sheffield were due to be evacuated last week before a last-minute scramble for cash granted them a stay […] Click here to view original…
People who bought homes in good faith should not pay for cladding failures
Everyone deserves a safe and affordable place to live. For many seemingly fortunate people across the country this was indeed a given, until the day the tragic Grenfell Tower fire revealed that the system designed to keep them safe had catastrophically failed. Three and a half years on and […] Click here to view original…
Safety and sustainability and the cladding crisis
Ross Gissane, director of lenders and investors at Arcadis. Following the secretary of state for housing, communities and local government’s announcement of an additional £3.5bn for replacing dangerous cladding, Ross Gissane of Arcadis offers some salient thoughts on the issue. An Englishman’s home is his castle, but what happens […] Click here to view original…
Five Trafford tower blocks with same cladding as Grenfell finally have it removed over two years after tragedy
The ACM cladding panels on the outside of the Citiscape block (Anuj Vats/PA) Work to strip off the ‘potentially unsafe’ cladding on Trafford’s five social housing tower blocks has been completed – but its replacement won’t be finished until at least the autumn. The ACM cladding, the same kind […] Click here to view original…
Welsh cladding scandal victims left in the dark about new £3.5bn support
Grenfell Tower, London, where a fire killed 72 people in 2017 Want to keep up to date on Welsh politics? When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other related newsletters or services we offer. Our Privacy […] Click here to view original…
Years after the Grenfell fire, flammable cladding was finally removed from these tower blocks – now the flats are freezing
Robert Vaudrey and Pamela Law with their daughter April outside their flat in Holm Court, Pendleton Sign up to the MySalford newsletter and don’t miss a thing happening in and around the city When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes […] Click here to view original…