Government also reveals that more than 2,000 applications have been made to the Building Safety Fund Work to replace a type of flammable cladding blamed for the spread of the 2017 Grenfell Tower has been started on all affected social housing blocks, according to the latest government data. According […]Click here to view original web…

‘The stress has been so great that I could not be a proper caregiver to my son, so I reached out to my GP who prescribed me an antidepressant’ ‘I thought buying this home for my son in 2017 was the right thing, but I trapped us in a […] Click here to view original…

Waking watches are used as a temporary safety measure in buildings that have not had unsafe cladding removed. Credit: PA Waking watches in buildings seen as fire risks in the wake of the Grenfell disaster are costing Londoners an average of £12 million a month, – more than the […] Click here to view original…

The latest announcement comes more than three years after the Grenfell Tower fire (Steve Parsons/PA) The Government is expected to announce billions of pounds in funding to help tackle the cladding crisis more than three and a half years after the Grenfell Tower disaster. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick is […] Click here to view original…

Persimmon said it would book the charge in its 2020 results to cover its contribution for work on the buildings (Chris Radburn/PA) Housebuilding giant Persimmon has set aside £75 million to pay for work on potentially unsafe cladding on 26 multi-storey buildings constructed by the group in the past. […] Click here to view original…

Roger Devlin, chairman of Persimmon which has set aside £75m to address cladding safetey on 26 buildings it has developed in the past. A YORK-headquartered house builder has set aside £75million to address cladding safety issues in the wake of London’s Grenfell Tower fire scandal. Persimmon has announced the […] Click here to view original…

Government ministers are set to provide financial support towards removing non-compliant cladding, in an aim to help leaseholders currently impacted by the crisis. The House of Commons tweeted that in a live stream of Prime Minister’s Questions at midday today, an update would be provided by Housing Secretary Robert […] Click here to view original…

Campaigners allege ‘betrayal’ as new money will only cover buildings higher than six storeys, with others forced to take out loans The government is under fire after cladding campaigners described the announcement of £3.5bn of extra cash and a proposed developer levy to raise funds as a “betrayal” of […] Click here to view original…

Three-and-a-half years after the Grenfell fire, critics say the package is a ‘betrayal’ of millions of leaseholders. Grenfell Tower The Housing Secretary has been accused of a “betrayal” of hundreds of thousands of leaseholders after he unveiled a new £3.5 billion package to end the “cladding scandal”. In a […] Click here to view original…

Housing Minister Robert Jenrick has today, 10 February, announced the UK Government’s further plans to remove unsafe cladding by investing an additional £3.5 billion. Jenrick promises that the funding will ensure leaseholders in England in high-rise buildings above 18 metres will bear no costs in order to make them […] Click here to view original…

Boris Johnson must take personal charge of the cladding crisis from “incompetent” Robert Jenrick’s housing department, according to Tory backbencher Stephen McPartland. McPartland told PoliticsHome thousands of people have been betrayed by the government’s financial package , that will support only some leaseholders who have dangerous cladding on their […] Click here to view original…

By Joe Talora, Local Democracy Reporter The Mayor of London has said it is “shameful” that some people will still have to pay to have unsafe cladding removed from their buildings following the Government’s announcement of additional funding. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick today announced £3.5 billion of additional funding […] Click here to view original…