The government has extended the deadline for applications to its Building Safety Fund which removes or repairs certain types of unsafe cladding on high rise buildings by six months. However, the latest data shows fewer than one in five of the 2,820 registrations received by the end of September […]Click here to view original web…

hat we witnessed more than three years ago seemed like a scene from a horror movie. One could be forgiven for thinking it was a freak accident. But the fire at Grenfell Tower was no accident – it was the result of years of neglect , deregulation and corporate […] Click here to view original…

previous The legacy of the Grenfell tragedy is forcing those looking to sell or buy flats in multi-storey buildings to think again. At present many such flats are virtually unsaleable. Why? It is well known that the cladding wrapped around the exterior walls of Grenfell Tower was highly combustible […] Click here to view original…

Up to 700,000 people are living in dangerous conditions because their building is surrounded by flammable cladding. Pictured: Workers removing cladding at a block in Salford (Photo: Getty) One of the biggest scandals currently in the UK is the cladding fiasco that is causing people to live in unsafe […] Click here to view original…

Jeff J Mitchell / Getty Images Sadiq Khan has called on Whitehall to introduce a £3bn levy on private housing developers to fund replacement cladding work. Thousands of Londoners, both in the private and social housing sector, are still awaiting replacement cladding work on their properties after the Grenfell […] Click here to view original…

Government officials were warned in summer 2014 that combustible Kingspan insulation was being used on high rises despite the fact testing did not confirm its safety, emails disclosed by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry today show. Kingspan’s Tony Millichap gave evidence to the inquiry today (picture: Grenfell Tower Inquiry) Sharelines […] Click here to view original…

Hearing told of more concerns from worried cladding contractors over Kingspan’s K15 product The former head of technical at the manufacturer of a combustible insulation product installed on Grenfell Tower has told the inquiry he was not aware the product was not safe to use on tall buildings. Tony […] Click here to view original…

A manager from Leominster insulation firm Kingspan has been speaking at the Grenfell Tower inquiry The former technical lead of a Leominster insulation maker whose product was used on Grenfell Tower has said he did not know that the product “burnt very ferociously” during a failed fire test. Tony […] Click here to view original…

Wicker Riverside development Three years since the Grenfell Tower fire, hundreds of buildings across the UK still have 24-hour safety patrols. Waking watches were introduced by the National Fire Chiefs Council as a temporary measure to keep residents safe but some buildings have had wardens in place for years […] Click here to view original…

Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick tells LBC he is confident significant progress has been made in resolving the Cladding Crisis. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has told LBC that “big steps forward” will be made in removing dangerous cladding from tall buildings amid a cladding crisis for thousands of homeowners. As […] Click here to view original…

If you own an apartment – or are thinking of buying one – the recent news about building quality has been worrying . There have been evacuations at the Opal and Mascot apartment towers in Sydney, cladding fires at the Lacrosse and Neo200 towers in Melbourne and the Grenfell […] Click here to view original…

Meridian House. Google Maps. Potentially dangerous cladding will be removed at The Meridian apartment block on Kenavon Drive and replaced with new non-combustible cladding. The site is made up of four blocks, but the works will only take place at blocks A, B and C. The potentially dangerous cladding […] Click here to view original…