Nearly 3,000 blocks have dangerous non-ACM cladding
Sunday Times reports that 2,957 blocks containing 186,000 homes have applied for £1bn cladding replacement fund Owners of nearly 3,000 apartment blocks have registered with a £1bn government fund to pay for the replacement of dangerous non-ACM cladding, the Sunday Times has reported. The paper said that the figure […] Click here to view original…
Combustible insulation used on Grenfell Tower was sold at a heavy discount to building company
The Celotex RS5000 insulation—found by Phase 1 of the Grenfell Inquiry as “more likely than not” to have contributed to the spread of the 2017 inferno—was sold to construction company Harley Facades at a 47.5 percent discount. The 660 sheets purchased for £45,804 represented the first Celotex product approved […] Click here to view original…
Glasgow flats residents in balcony ‘smoking ban’ over Grenfell cladding fears
Residents at Lancefield Quay in Glasgow have been issued with a warning Get the stories that matter to you sent straight to your inbox with our daily newsletter. When you subscribe we will use the information you provide to send you these newsletters. Sometimes they’ll include recommendations for other […] Click here to view original…
Single Market Bill could ‘weaken Scots Grenfell regulations’
Architect Peter Drummond says Scotland’s building regulations, which could be lost under the UK Single Market Bill, prevented a Grenfell-style disaster north of the border UK government plans to end independent Scottish building regulations have been condemned by a leading architect. Peter Drummond, a senior member of the Royal […] Click here to view original…
Bellway recovers after profits hit by Covid-19 and Grenfell cladding measures
Housebuilder Bellway has seen profits slump by nearly two-thirds after lockdown knocked sales and it took a near-£50m hit over potentially unsafe cladding in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy (Mike Egerton/PA) Housebuilder Bellway has seen profits slump by nearly two-thirds after lockdown knocked sales and it took a […] Click here to view original…
Up to 1.5m homes ‘unmortgageable’ over cladding fears after Grenfell fire disaster
Up to 1.5million flats could be “unmortgageable” because owners cannot prove the walls are safe Up to 1.5 million flats could be “unmortgageable” because owners cannot prove the walls are safe in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire, it has been claimed. Since the Government tightened safety advice […] Click here to view original…
Up to 1.5million modern flats could be unmortgageable for as long as a decade amid crisis over building safety in wake of Grenfell Tower blaze
Thousands of moderns homes will be unmortgageable for years amid a crisis over building safety standards in the housing market. Owners of up to 1.5 million high-rise flats could have to wait as long as a decade to get sign-off to prove they are safe in the wake of […] Click here to view original…
Great Suffolk Street flats: polystyrene insulation to be removed
Buxton Homes built the block at the corner of Great Suffolk Street and Pocock Street in two phases, with the first six storeys completed in 2006 and a further two floors added in 2017. The development stands on the site of a former bacon factory. In a letter to […] Click here to view original…
Thousands of families trapped as ‘unsafe’ flats paralyse property market
Claire and Alex Kirby and children Leo and Isabelle are trapped in a one-bed flat in east London The Grenfell fire is casting a pall over the whole property market. First the fallout hit 30,000 flats with the type of cladding that fuelled the inferno. Now it has exposed […] Click here to view original…
£600,000 Olympic village home ‘worth nothing’
Rachael Philpot, far right, and fellow part-owners of flats Some of the Olympic village flats that Boris Johnson once called “swankier than the most swanky Marbella timeshare” have Grenfell-type cladding. Delayed safety certificates mean no one can sell or secure a mortgage on the east London flats where athletes […] Click here to view original…
Half of ACM fire-risk blocks have had cladding removed
Latest figures show continuing scale of challenge more than three years on from Grenfell Just half of all the residential towers found to have been clad in dangerous ACM panels have had the material removed, more than three years on from the tragic fire at Grenfell tower. According to […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell-style cladding finally being replaced at luxury Cabot Circus high-rise
Grenfell-like cladding encasing a luxury Bristol apartment block is finally coming off, three years after it was identified as a potential fire risk. […] Click here to view original web page at www.bristolpost.co.uk