Hundreds of residential blocks still have dangerous ACM cladding
Workmen apply cladding to a building in the Nottingham City Centre, 2018 × MORE than 260 residential blocks in England still remain cloaked in Grenfell-style cladding, government statistics revealed today. Of these buildings, 86 are social sector and 175 private-sector residential buildings, the ministry of housing’s monthly building safety […] Click here to view original…
More than 300 buildings in England need cladding removed – MHCLG
There are more than 300 high-rise and publicly-owned buildings in England with dangerous cladding systems that fall short of regulations, updated figures revealed. Works to remove and replace Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) cladding have taken place on 141 buildings since the Grenfell Tower tragedy, according to the Ministry of […] Click here to view original…
Cost of cladding removal is ‘massive strain’ on homeowners, says Bromley MP
Bob Neill The cost residents are having to pay to remove dangerous cladding from their properties is “putting people under massive, massive strain”, a Bromley MP says. Tory Sir Bob Neill, representing Bromley and Chislehurst, pressured the Government to make funding available to homeowners affected. He said the Government […] Click here to view original…
MPs urge government to fix all buildings with dangerous cladding
MPs have demanded that the government finally foot a multi-billion-pound bill to bail out hundreds of thousands of apartment owners caught in the post-Grenfell fire safety crisis . Hilary Benn , MP for Leeds Central, on Wednesday led cross-party calls for the chancellor, Sajid Javid, to urgently increase the […] Click here to view original…
Two mystery hotels in Berkshire have same cladding as Grenfell Tower
Workers installing scaffolding on student accommodation, Queens Court in Reading, ahead of removing ACM cladding. (This is not one of the hotels.) THE fire service won’t reveal the locations of two hotels in Berkshire with the same cladding as Grenfell Tower due to fears of ‘arson and terrorism’. The […] Click here to view original…
Cladded flats: Residents feel trapped in ‘unsafe’ building
Residents in an apartment complex in Manchester have to pay for a fire warden 24/7 after their building was deemed unsafe. Leanne Kilheeney and Matt Hallsworth are among those in Albion Works who have been told they will have to pay for the replacement of the exterior timber cladding […] Click here to view original…
Residents of flats on banks of Mersey face £30,000 bill each in cladding scandal
The Deck flats in Runcorn. (Image: stuartbogg/runcornweeklynews) Residents of six apartment blocks on the banks of the Mersey fear the cost of removing dangerous cladding from the buildings could make them homeless. Leaseholders at the Decks development in Runcorn are facing bills of £30,000 each to replace the buildings’ […] Click here to view original…
Cladding on Bradford’s City Exchange building was wrongly signed off as meeting fire standards
Cladding which did not meet fire standards was wrongly signed off for a Bradford city centre building, planning documents have claimed. An application was lodged with Bradford Council to replace cladding on the City Exchange building on Hall Ings. Documents submitted as part of that application, which has now […] Click here to view original…
Westminster Hall Wednesday 12 February 2020
Ladywood MP Shabana Mahmood speaking in the Second Chamber about the Cladding and Insurance issues at Islington Gates. Click here to view original web page at parliamentlive.tv
Imprisoned by cladding: The flat owners who cannot sell
Thousands of people in the UK are living in flats they cannot sell, because the outside wall is covered in cladding. Sometimes it’s combustible, like the material that turned Grenfell Tower into an inferno. But people may become prisoners in their homes even when it isn’t – because the […] Click here to view original…
Unsafe cladding – Early Day Motion (EDM)
That this House notes with concern the number of people living in blocks with cladding (both ACM and HPL) which has either been identified as unsafe or has yet to be inspected; is aware that a growing number of people are currently unable to sell their homes because of […] Click here to view original…
Cladding victims now being hit by insurance hikes, reports BBC R4 You and Yours
Birmingham’s Islington Gates is one of the cladding sites where leaseholders have been stung by a surge in insurance premiums this year By Harry Scoffin The cladding crisis has rippled through the insurance market, with leasehold tenants in dangerous apartment buildings “being hammered” by “inflated bills”, BBC Radio 4’s […] Click here to view original…