Pressure mounts on government to fix millions of potentially unsafe homes as Grenfell Inquiry re-starts
A s the Grenfell Tower Inquiry calls witnesses again on Monday after a nine-week break due to Covid-19, pressure on the government has reached new heights to fix Britain’s building safety crisis , a scandal affecting as many as 11 million people. What began as an investigation into how […]Click here to view original web…
Eastbourne MP signs bill making it illegal for developers to pass on cladding costs
Caroline Ansell has been campaigning to help householders in around 40 properties across the town who have the issue of unsafe cladding – a problem that was brought to light in 2017 after the Grenfell fire in London killed 72 people. The public inquiry into the fire found that […] Click here to view original…
Cladding scandal: builders who make billions urged to stump up cash for cladding scandal
Left to right: Rob Perrins of Berkeley Group, Taylor Wimpey’s Pete Redfern, David Thomas of Barratt and Persimmon’s Dean Finch Dean Finch, chief executive of the housebuilder Persimmon, celebrated a very happy new year. The boss of Britain’s most profitable developer revealed in January that a surge in sales […] Click here to view original…
Nicola Sturgeon urged to offer grants and bonds to solve cladding crisis
Combustible cladding is still in use on flats post-Grenfell Nicola Sturgeon is being asked to consider government-backed grants and bonds to help hundreds of thousands of flat owners affected by the cladding crisis . The Property Managers Association Scotland has written to the first minister offering a potential solution […] Click here to view original…
Cladding victims hit with 1,400% crippling insurance hikes with ‘secret’ commissions
Leigh Aldous (far left) along with some of the other 219 leaseholders who live at Seren Park Gardens in Greenwich who are facing a £658,000 insurance bill, up from £122k last year – see below Crippling insurance bills sent to cladding victims are loaded with “secret” commissions to freeholders, […] Click here to view original…
Cladding removal should begin not tomorrow morning, not this afternoon, NOW
I KNOW from first hand experience that men can’t multi-task. If I’m wiring a plug, there’s no point asking me what I want for supper, because I’m wiring a plug. This is why there was no point asking the mostly male Government for help with the post-Grenfell cladding crisis […] Click here to view original…
‘I love my flat, but I’m stuck’ … Manchester council hears from disabled resident caught up in cladding crisis, and calls on government to act
Vallea Court in the Green Quarter where residents have won funding for replacement cladding Manchester council has called on the government to end the cladding crisis as thousands of residents are still living in unsafe buildings nearly four years on from the Grenfell Tower fire. Councillors from across the […] Click here to view original…
Barratt becomes first house builder to back developer levy to fund cladding removal
The week in housing: the cladding crisis dominates the news once again Large housing association sees completions drop by 40% Evicted shared owner paying rent on empty flat as EWS crisis prevents resale Grenfell Tower Inquiry: what to look out for over the coming weeks The government’s refusal to […] Click here to view original…
Runcorn MP says Government is ‘duty-bound’ to tackle cladding crisis
Mike Amesbury, Labour MP for Weaver Vale. (Picture: handout) East Runcorn MP and shadow housing minister Mike Amesbury has urged the Prime Minister to take urgent action over unsafe cladding following a vote in Parliament. Labour forced a vote in the House of Commons during an Opposition Day Debate […] Click here to view original…
Residents’ anxious wait to discover if cladding costs will be passed on to them
The Axis development in Mercury Gardens, Romford, continues to await necessary remediation work to remove unsafe cladding. – Credit: Archant The battle to remove unsafe cladding from high-rise buildings has been going on for close to four years. In the aftermath of the Grenfell fire tragedy in June 2017, […] Click here to view original…
Building giant Barratt becomes first construction firm to call for levy to bail out victims of the cladding scandal
Cladding victims hailed a major breakthrough last night – after Barratt became the first housebuilder to back calls for a developer levy to help pay for the crisis. The construction giant acknowledged that the industry had a ‘collective responsibility’ to cover the costs of the scandal, which has left […] Click here to view original…
Week Ahead: Government under pressure over cladding scandal misery affecting thousands in Yorkshire
Cladding being removed from Hanover tower block in Sheffield, Yorkshire in 2017. Picture: Danny Lawson/PA Wire CLADDING SCANDAL Growing scrutiny will be placed on the national cladding scandal affecting people living in more than 100 apartment buildings in Yorkshire alone as MPs vote on the matter on Monday. The […] Click here to view original…