Nicola Sturgeon’s constituents in cladding insurance fight
More than 100 structures over 18 metres tall in Scotland are believed to have been clad with materials such as aluminium composite, which fuelled the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017 Thousands of residents across Scotland, including in Nicola Sturgeon’s constituency, are fighting to insure their homes amid concerns over […] Click here to view original…
Thousands of new hospitals, flats and schools at risk of fire
Nick Kirwin paid £160,000 for a new flat in Manchester but doesn’t know whether the cladding and insulation are safe A new block at Great Ormond Street Hospital and a school in Boris Johnson’s constituency are among nearly 1,400 public buildings with walls that could have fire risks, an […] Click here to view original…
New proposals put forward to significantly reduce number of buildings requiring EWS checks
Wave of Conservative MPs back amendment to protect leaseholders from cladding costs Disabled leaseholders demand meeting with Jenrick over cladding issues Government ministers and officials told to give evidence to Grenfell inquiry Hundreds evacuated from council-owned block following gas leak Grenfell Inquiry restart delayed due to COVID-19 restrictions Minister […] Click here to view original…
Building safety minister tells cladding firm executives to “step up to the plate”
BUILDING SAFETY minister Stephen Greenhalgh has told three current and former executives at the French division of the US company Arconic to stop hiding behind an arcane French law. The Government has demanded that the executives who supplied combustible cladding to Grenfell Tower “step up to the plate” after […] Click here to view original…
Eastbourne MP calls for more government action around unsafe cladding
Eastbourne and Willingdon MP Caroline Ansell has signed a joint parliamentary letter calling on more government support for leaseholders facing big bills to replace unsafe cladding on their buildings. The issue has come about following the 2017 Grenfell fire – causing the government to set aside £1.6 billion to […] Click here to view original…
Disabled leaseholders demand meeting with Jenrick over cladding issues
Government ministers and officials told to give evidence to Grenfell inquiry Hundreds evacuated from council-owned block following gas leak Grenfell Inquiry restart delayed due to COVID-19 restrictions Minister tells Arconic bosses to ‘step up’ and appear before Grenfell Inquiry Welsh Budget: social housing funding increased to £200m next year […] Click here to view original…
A million flats in England could be unmortgageable due to cladding
Some 1.27 million flats in England may be ineligible for a mortgage due to concerns around unsafe cladding, a report by Capital Economics has suggested. The consultancy firm said if it was to be assumed that the statement made by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Governments (MHCLG) […] Click here to view original…
Building Safety Minister calls on cladding executives to “step up” and face Grenfell inquiry
The UK’s Building Safety Minister, Stephen Greenhalgh, has added pressure to the calls for cladding executives who supplied materials for the Grenfell Tower to face the ongoing inquiry. In a tweet made on Sunday 3 rd January on Twitter, Mr Greenhalgh said it was “Time for these @arconic executives […] Click here to view original…
BEN WILKINSON: The cladding scandal has seen homeowners bitterly betrayed… ministers must act now to end their misery
Home ownership is a dream that takes a lot of hard work and sacrificial saving for many of us to realise. It is supposed to mean security, and it is meant to be one of the first big steps towards a bright financial future. The Government’s Help To Buy […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell firm’s director exits after billionaire boss Gene Murtagh apologises
Grenfell Tower in flames in June 2017. Seventy-two people died as a result of the blaze A director of a company that made combustible cladding fitted to Grenfell Tower quit yesterday after revelations at the public inquiry into the disaster. Kingspan said that Peter Wilson would retire as head […] Click here to view original…
Retirements in ruins: It’s another side to the cladding scandal – Buy-to-let investors left high and dry, with their pension plans in tatters and properties almost worthless
Faced with dwindling interest rates on savings, John and Veronica Ierston decided to invest their modest retirement savings in property. Fifteen years ago, the couple bought two flats in a brand new block in central Manchester. But when they attempted to sell up and release the equity last autumn, […] Click here to view original…
Minister tells Arconic bosses to ‘step up’ and appear before Grenfell Inquiry
Bosses at the company which made the cladding panels for Grenfell Tower are refusing to appear before the inquiry Click here to view original web page at www.insidehousing.co.uk