Bellway slammed by London MP for failure to resolve cladding dispute
David Lammy says developer has shown ‘complete disregard’ for residents of Tottenham Hale Village Labour MP David Lammy has accused housebuilder Bellway of showing “complete disregard” for the residents of a 420-home development in Tottenham which he said was coated with potentially flammable cladding. Speaking in a House of […]Click here to view original web…
PM slams mortgage lenders for cladding response but leaves leaseholders with the bill
Prime minister Boris Johnson has slammed mortgage lenders for their use of the External Wall Survey (EWS1) form to assess high rise buildings, but he failed to promise that leaseholders would not have to pay for cladding removal. The subject of the government’s response to the Grenfell Tower disaster […] Click here to view original…
Government must provide more funds for the removal of unsafe cladding
The British Safety Council supports the call by the House of Commons Housing Committee that the Government must protect leaseholders from having to pay towards removing flammable cladding from their homes. The Housing Committee said it was alarmed that a £1.6 billion Government fund set up after the Grenfell […] Click here to view original…
Rishi Sunak’s Spending Review 2020:what did the Chancellor say about London housing, Crossrail and cladding?
AFP via Getty Images The Government will allocate £7.1 billion to a new National Home Building Fund next year, as announced by Chancellor Rishi Sunak today in the Spending Review 2020. The fund forms part of the new National Infrastructure Strategy which will see a new infrastructure bank created, […] Click here to view original…
The list of changes Sheffield Council plans to make in light of cladding investigation
Hanover Tower failed a number of safety checks in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy Councillors on a scrutiny committee are set to discuss a report that detailed a three-year investigation into why dangerous cladding was put on a council tower block in Sheffield. Before it was put on […] Click here to view original…
People’s ‘lives are being ruined’ by unsafe cladding problem in Eastbourne
They say they are in ‘a very stressful situation’ due to the ongoing debate around who is to pay for the repairs. In Eastbourne around 40 buildings including several in Sovereign Harbour have the cladding. In 2017 Grenfell Tower in London went up in flames killing 72 people. The […] Click here to view original…
RICS issues cladding guidance for public consultation
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has issued proposed guidance for public consultation, stating that on buildings over six storeys there should be no cladding or curtain wall glazing on the building. For buildings of five or six storeys, the guidance proposes that there should not be a […] Click here to view original…
Post-Grenfell cladding inspections find other fire risks
image captionFlat owners have been organising fire safety checks Fire safety inspections have uncovered hundreds of blocks of flats in England and Wales with faulty or missing fire prevention measures, the BBC has found. Flat owners have been looking for evidence of unsafe cladding in the wake of the […] Click here to view original…
Freeholders ‘shockingly’ able to hide results of EWS1 form if building not fire safe!
by: Beth Rudolf, director of delivery at the Conveyancing Association (CA) No one who has seen the horrific images of the Grenfell Tower disaster will forget just how devastating that fire was, the loss of life it caused, or the deep-seated belief it engendered that this should be something […] Click here to view original…
EXCLUSIVE: fire service investigating FOUR Sheffield high rise buildings with risky cladding
Leaseholders have set up a new action group. We can exclusively reveal the fire service is investigating at least four high rise residential buildings in Sheffield which have risky cladding or insulation. Since the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, thousands of leaseholders across the […] Click here to view original web page at planetradio.co.uk
Britain’s biggest building society Nationwide speaks out on cladding fire safety risk scandal – and how it will help owners get moving again
Britain’s biggest building society Nationwide has spoken out on what it is doing to help flat owners in blocks with cladding-related fire safety defects, who are struggling to remortgage or move home. These leaseholders are required to have what is known as an EWS1 form to prove their building […] Click here to view original…
The cladding scandal: The thousands left without a mortgage or unable to sell
The government recently unveiled a social housing white paper, which hopes to transform social housing’s future for the better and give hope to those affected by the disasters from the past. The seven step charter set out by the government to help raise the standards of social housing, both […] Click here to view original…