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…
Cladding remediation: Progress on improving building safety needs to move faster
The government has been criticised for taking far too long to remove all flammable cladding from residential buildings. The government says it “has been working tirelessly” with councils to remove unsafe cladding, but Ed Mead , co-founder and director at Viewber , has condemned the government’s action on removing […] Click here to view original…
Tory MP accuses Housing Secretary of ‘shocking betrayal’ over cladding crisis
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick Residents trapped in homes they cannot sell because of concerns over cladding have been subject to a “shocking betrayal” by the Government, a Tory MP has said. In response to the Grenfell Tower fire, the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) made £600 […] Click here to view original…
Flat owners face £30,000 bill each to replace cladding after Grenfell disaster
Mark Johnson has been hit with an enormous bill to replace flammable timber cladding on the walls of his building (Picture: London Assembly) Families in a north London block of flats fear going bankrupt after being told they would have to foot a £1.7 million bill to replace flammable […] Click here to view original…
Plans in for ‘urgent’ cladding work at City Gate
The blocks are located on Manchester’s Blantyre Street Dangerous aluminium carbonate cladding needs to be removed from three blocks at Bellway’s Castlefield scheme and an application for the work has now been lodged more than three years after the problem was identified. The application was lodged by property management […] Click here to view original…
Jenrick hints at more funding for leaseholders affected by cladding scandal
Leaseholders trapped in buildings with potentially dangerous cladding could get more financial support from the government, Robert Jenrick has hinted. Click here to view original web page at www.insidehousing.co.uk
Call for Grenfell-style cladding to be removed from all UK buildings by June 2022 – the fifth anniversary of disaster
Frustrated campaigners who lost loved ones in the Grenfell Tower disaster have ramped up their campaign to get cladding off homes throughout the UK. They are staging a waking watch – like those designed to alert people to fires – at the Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government […] Click here to view original…
Forged signature found on Cardiff flats fire certificate
Century Wharf near Cardiff Bay The fire safety certificate for cladding on a block of Cardiff flats has been found to be fake. A resident of Marseilles House at Century Wharf discovered the building’s External Wall Fire Review (EWS1) contained a false surveyor’s signature. An industry-wide certificate was introduced […] Click here to view original…
Guest blog: The industry must engage with the cladding scandal – it’ll soon affect us all
As campaigners lobby Ministers to intervene fully and rescue some 500,000 apartment owners trapped by the cladding scandal, senior industry figure Ed Mead joins the fray with his own tale. Many reading the press around this issue, lost in the miasma that is Covid, have probably been thinking “Thank […] Click here to view original…