Rather than extending the stamp duty holiday the Treasury should spend money to address the cladding scandal, said Sarah Olney, MP for Richmond Park in London. The Liberal Democrat MP is critical of the government’s stamp duty holiday, which she said has already cost the Treasury £3.8bn. She said […]Click here to view original web…

Labour has said it is “extraordinary” that millions of people could potentially still be living in homes clad in dangerously flammable material, as the party launched a parliamentary push for the government to take steps to help those affected. Ahead of an opposition day motion in which Labour will […] Click here to view original…

A woman whose flat was found to have Grenfell-style cladding has become the first victim of the building safety crisis to declare bankruptcy at the age of 28 after becoming trapped with an unsellable home. … To continue reading Already a subscriber? Log in Enjoy unlimited access to all […] Click here to view original…

Conservative MPs have piled pressure on the government to act swiftly to stop flat owners being forced to pay vast sums for the removal of flammable cladding, a situation one called “a living nightmare” for many leaseholders. Speaking in a Commons debate on Monday, a series of Tory backbenchers […] Click here to view original…

Urgent plans submitted to replace ‘high fire risk’ cladding at block of flats Plans have been submitted to remove potentially dangerous cladding at an apartment block in Reading’s town centre after investigations revealed the flats were at “high risk” in the event of a fire. A planning application has […] Click here to view original…

Residents of buildings with flammable cladding say their lives are an “unending nightmare”. Interviews residents of the Royal Artillery Quays in Woolwich: Timea Szabo, 37, working in financial services, and Germana Bacchini, recently unemployed, 34. It comes ahead of a parliamentary debate on Monday about protecting tenants and leaseholders […] Click here to view original…

Three and a half years after the Grenfell Tower disaster, laws designed to make sure dangerous cladding was removed have left many homeowners with unsafe and unsellable homes and mounting bills to make them fire-safe. Now the Labour Party is calling on the government to create a taskforce to […] Click here to view original…

Many buildings in Manchester are affected by the cladding scandal Don’t miss a thing by getting the latest from the Manchester Evening News sent direct to your inbox When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other […] Click here to view original…

LONDON — Nearly four years after a fire killed 72 people as it tore through London’s Grenfell Tower — a high-rise building clad in flammable material — Britain’s opposition party is demanding that the government come to the aid of hundreds of thousands of people living in dangerous apartments […] Click here to view original…

One of the blocks Plans have been submitted to remove potentially dangerous cladding at an apartment block in Reading’s town centre after investigations revealed the flats were at “high risk” in the event of a fire. A planning application has been submitted to the council to replace cladding at […] Click here to view original…

A campaigner, who owns a flat in Sheffield with the same cladding as Grenfell Tower, says he and others in his building have been left with a £52,000 bill to make it safe. William Martin, who is a co-founder of the UK Cladding Action Group also told LBC that […] Click here to view original…

A ban on high-risk cladding on new multi-storey buildings has come into effect in Victoria, with non-compliant builders facing fines of up to $400,000. The ban applies to flammable aluminium composite panels and rendered expanded polystyrene being used as external wall cladding on all future developments. Planning Minister Richard […] Click here to view original…