CAROLINE ANSELL MP: Vaccines hope and cladding issues
The real vaccination challenge has always been to stop transmission of the virus so this is great news and there is hope other vaccines will do the same. However, we have some way to go before we can be absolutely confident the vaccines are working to reduce infections, hospitalisations […]Click here to view original web…
The government’s refusal to back Labour’s plan to end the cladding scandal is an insult to homeowners
Mike Ambesbury is shadow housing minister, and Sarah Jones is shadow minister for the police and fire services It is clear that the government does not have a clear plan to end the cladding crisis. Monday’s opposition-day debate was an opportunity for all sides of the house to send […] Click here to view original…
Dangerous cladding ‘shameful’ says North-East MP amid vote on task force
THE Government has been urged to take action against unsafe cladding UK homes after a Commons vote on Monday, though Conservative MPs did not vote – including those in the North-East. MPs voted 263 to zero, majority 263, in support of Labour’s non-binding motion urging the Government to “get […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis is a living nightmare for thousands of people
More than three and a half years on from Grenfell, the fallout of the cladding crisis is still being felt by hundreds of thousands of leaseholders today. Since Grenfell the cladding crisis has only increased in magnitude. It has grown from the slow uncovering of a building safety crisis […] Click here to view original…
Boris Johnson pledges to help victims of the cladding scandal
Boris Johnson yesterday pledged to protect leaseholders from the ‘unaffordable costs’ of fixing unsafe homes. The Prime Minister said the Government was ‘determined’ that home owners would not have to pay crippling bills to correct fire safety defects that ‘are no fault of their own’. The promise comes after […] Click here to view original…
Leeds woman stung with massive increase in charges due to flat’s cladding problems
Pippa has been stung by huge increases in costs due to cladding issues Pippa Hamshaw, aged 31 from Leeds, bought her flat in Leeds city centre in 2019 and was informed the next year that her flat had issue with flammable cladding, flammable insulation, missing fire breaks and wooden […] Click here to view original…
Reading Council approves works to replace potentially dangerous cladding
The Meridian, Google maps The council has approved works to replace potentially dangerous cladding at an apartment block in east Reading. The “potentially combustible” cladding will be removed from parts of the buildings that make up The Meridian apartment block on Kenavon Drive by the River Kennet . Applications […] Click here to view original…
Worried flat owners demand urgent cladding action
There have been safety fears over highly flammable cladding since the Grenfell tragedy in 2017. Hundreds of owners in buildings covered with highly flammable cladding are demanding urgent action to make their homes safe. A near £100m remedial fund granted to the Scottish Government by the UK treasury has […] Click here to view original…
Britain needs a national cladding task force to end nightmare for hundreds of thousands of people – Greg Wright
WHEN the Grenfell Tower fire claimed the lives of more than 70 people in the summer of 2017, there was a national outpouring of grief and anger. Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer during a visit to Albert House, Woolwich, London, which has cladding that since the Grenfell disaster has […] Click here to view original…
Barratt Developments sales hit record but cladding costs hit profits
Cladding remedial work provisions rose by £63.4mln in the first half Dividend payments have restarted with a 7.5p interim Barratt Developments PLC ( LON:BDEV ) has resumed dividend payments after house sales hit a new record in the six months to end-December 2020. Interim revenues rose by 10.1% to […] Click here to view original…
Barratt bill for RC frame and cladding problem hits £82m
Serious concrete cracking at Croydon’s Citiscape scheme prompted a review of 26 other buildings Problems with several multi-storey concrete frames built over 10 years ago were uncovered during post-Grenfell cladding and building checks. Significant structural problems were found at its the Citiscape residential high-rise in Croydon town centre last […] Click here to view original…
Boris Johnson pledges to help victims of the cladding scandal and says leaseholders shouldn’t foot the bill for defects
Boris Johnson yesterday pledged to protect leaseholders from the ‘unaffordable costs’ of fixing unsafe homes. The Prime Minister said the Government was ‘determined’ that home owners would not have to pay crippling bills to correct fire safety defects that ‘are no fault of their own’. The promise comes after […] Click here to view original…