Tory rebellion looms over flat-owners’ cladding bills
Ministers are struggling to contain a growing Conservative backbench rebellion over the plight of residents in blocks of flats who face crippling bills to remove flammable cladding. An amendment that would make it illegal for developers to pass on remediation costs to leaseholders is nearing the 44 Tory signatures […]Click here to view original web…
RUTH SUNDERLAND: Make owners foot the bill for cladding scandal? We should be paying them compensation!
Ever since the cladding scandal emerged in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower conflagration, our post bags have overflowed with desperate missives from flat-owners. We have been told of the heartbreak of young couples, unable to sell their poky flats and forced to delay – who knows for how […] Click here to view original…
The week in housing: fraud, cladding and the looming recession
London Plan approved by government after year delay Two-thirds of large housing association’s Universal Credit claimants in arrears Social housing rent arrears hit record £1bn Nearly 2,000 housing association sales and mortgage renewals in London on hold due to EWS issues Government changes model tenancy agreement to allow pets […] Click here to view original…
Thousands ‘trapped for up to decade’ in London cladding scandal
T ens of thousands of London homeowners face being trapped in unsellable and potentially dangerous flats for up to a decade in one of the biggest housing scandals ever seen in the capital. More than three and a half years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, the fallout from […] Click here to view original…
Keir Starmer to force Commons vote on dangerous cladding and ‘intolerable’ costs for residents
Sir Keir Starmer has revealed Labour will force a vote in the Commons over dangerous cladding, aiming to protect leaseholders from “intolerable” costs and unsellable properties. Three and half years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy, the Labour leader said millions are still living in “unsafe accommodation” and urged Boris […] Click here to view original…
Labour to force cladding scandal vote in parliament on Monday
Scottish Budget: affordable housing spending cut by 16% Government changes model tenancy agreement to allow pets Number of families becoming homeless increased by nearly 30% between spring and summer last year, government data shows Salvation Army Housing Association placed under investigation by the regulator Johnson promises plan for cladding […] Click here to view original…
Labour to force Commons vote over cladding
Labour will hold a vote on Monday to force government action on the cladding scandal and protect millions of leaseholders from life-changing cladding costs and unsellable properties. Almost four years on from the Grenfell tragedy, the Government has failed to get a grip of the cladding scandal, which is […] Click here to view original…
Labour to force vote to protect leaseholders from cladding costs
Labour will force a parliamentary vote to protect leaseholders across the country from “intolerable” cladding costs highlighting today that millions are “trapped in unsafe and unsellable flats, with bills mounting”. Ahead of the next opposition day debate in parliament on Monday, Thangam Debbonaire has criticised “government inaction” on the […] Click here to view original…
Cladding Crisis: Government should take risk off leaseholders, Labour MP tells LBC
This is the moment Labour MP Thangam Debbonaire told LBC the Government needs to “take the risk off leaseholders” while addressing the Cladding Crisis The comments come after Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer revealed exclusively to LBC that his party planned to force a vote in the Commons on […] Click here to view original…
Labour to force Commons vote on cladding removal
Builders undertake works at a residential property in Paddington, London LABOUR will force a Commons vote on Monday to protect millions of leaseholders from being financially ruined by the expensive removal of dangerous building cladding. The Tory government has failed to get cladding removed from as much as 16 […] Click here to view original…
Labour to force vote to protect leaseholders from costs of removing cladding
Unsafe cladding remains an issue nearly four years after the Grenfell Tower fire Labour will force a Commons vote to protect millions of leaseholders from the cost of replacing dangerous cladding on their homes. Keir Starmer said the situation was “completely unacceptable” for homeowners, leaving residents trapped in dangerous […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis: Cancer research scientist at risk of job loss due to unsellable home
This cancer research scientist is at serious risk of losing her job because she is stuck in an unsellable home and cannot relocate. In 2020, LBC uncovered that millions of desperate people are trapped in homes with unsafe cladding which has rendered their properties entirely worthless. Dr Natalie Cureton […] Click here to view original…