Scotland’s approach to cladding crisis won’t be piecemeal, says housing minister
UK housing secretary Robert Jenrick yesterday agreed to pay £3.5 billion to remove cladding from hundreds of thousands of unsafe high-rise flats in England and criticised the Scottish Government for doing “absolutely nothing” to help flat-owners affected in Scotland. With £5bn investment in building safety, including the £3.5bn announced […]Click here to view original web…
Unsafe cladding and the new developer levy
The Housing Secretary, Robert Jenrick, has today unveiled a 5-point plan to remove unsafe cladding. The plan includes a new tax and levy for developers of certain high-rise buildings to cover the cost of grants. What will this entail? The 5-point plan to remove unsafe cladding The 5-point plan […] Click here to view original…
Quayside residents still left with major uncertainty over unsafe cladding despite new £3.5bn fund
St Ann’s Quay on Newcastle’s Quayside Worried residents on the Newcastle Quayside still face major uncertainty over the dangerous cladding on their homes, despite the government announcing a new £3.5 billion fund. Housing secretary Robert Jenrick confirmed the new scheme on Wednesday lunchtime, promising that leaseholders in high-rise blocks […] Click here to view original…
Robert Jenrick’s bailout doesn’t go far enough for those in death-trap flats
Daniel Hambury R obert Jenrick promised “certainty” for homeowners yesterday in the latest in a lengthening line of ministerial statements about the post-Grenfell cladding crisis. But the Housing Secretary’s 12-minute Commons pledge of “exceptional intervention” failed to deliver. For millions living in fear of their lives — and their […] Click here to view original…
Jenrick to introduce developer tax to help fund unsafe cladding removal
Housing secretary Robert Jenrick has pledged a further £3.5bn to fund the removal of unsafe cladding for all leaseholders in high-rise residential buildings as part of his five-point plan announced on 10th February. This aims to provide reassurance and security to leaseholders and confidence to mortgage providers that, where […] Click here to view original…
Plan to end ‘cladding scandal’ labelled a ‘betrayal’
Housing Secretary accused of a “betrayal” after unveils £3.5bn plan to end cladding crisis HOUSING Secretary Robert Jenrick has been accused of a “betrayal” of hundreds of thousands of leaseholders after he revealed a new £3.5 billion package to end the “cladding scandal”. In a statement yesterday (February 10), […] Click here to view original…
Welsh cladding scandal victims left in the dark about new £3.5bn support
Upper Grenfell Tower. Photo by ChiralJon,s licensed under Alex Seabrook, local democracy reporter Victims of the cladding scandal in Wales have been left in the dark about how much support they will receive amid uncertainty over funding. Three and half years after the Grenfell Tower fire, when 72 people […] Click here to view original…
Salesman says he ‘never would have sold’ Grenfell-style cladding if risks were known
Many involved in buying and selling flammable cladding claimed not to realise the dangers. A sales manager who sold cladding similar to what was used on Grenfell Tower has said he “never would have been selling or involved” if he realised how flammable it was. Vince Meakins told lawyers […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis: £3.5bn fund to strip unsafe panels post-Grenfell announced by Robert Jenrick
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has announced up to £3.5 billion worth of grants to strip cladding, nearly four years after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed the crisis. The scandal left hundreds of thousands of leaseholders across the country facing huge bills to remove dangerous cladding from their homes – […] Click here to view original…
UK government faces Tory MPs backlash over fund to fix cladding
The government is facing a backlash from its own MPs after announcing a £3.5bn fund to fix dangerous cladding on high-rise buildings in England, with the offer of loans to leaseholders to fix similar problems in shorter buildings. Stephen McPartland, a Conservative backbencher who has worked closely on efforts […] Click here to view original…
Government’s £3.5bn flammable cladding fund ‘a slap in the face’, says Sheffield flat owner
Housing Minister Robert Jenrick today described the fund as the ‘largest ever government investment’ in building safety – and also announced plans for a new levy and tax on housebuilders to help pay for it. The fund was created to help the thousands of flat-owners who were found to […] Click here to view original…
Government pledge to replace Grenfell-style cladding is just ‘smoke and mirrors’ says Tory MP
We spoke to Anastasia Frost from the Manchester Cladiators, a group representing residents and leaseholders of apartment blocks across Greater Manchester with fire safety issues. We also spoke to Stephen McPartland, the Conservative MP for Stevenage who is calling on the government to protect leaseholders from having to stump […] Click here to view original…