Committee condemns ‘badly missed’ cladding remediation target
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has slammed the ‘badly missed’ target to make thousands of Grenfell-style cladding homes safe, as it urges the new 2021 deadline be met Three years after the Grenfell Tower disaster , only 155 out of 455 high-rise buildings with Grenfell-style flammable cladding have had […] Click here to view original…
Housing ministry rebuts Phil Spencer’s cladding criticism
Phil Spencer has ruffled feathers at the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government, which has responded to his criticisms of its response to the leasehold cladding scandal. These were made within our story yesterday ‘ TV star calls on government to fix the growing leaseholder cladding scandal’ , […] Click here to view original…
Government’s cladding failure condemned thousands to ‘lives of stress and fear’
The Government’s failure to meet flammable cladding targets has condemned thousands to “lives of stress and fear”, a new report has found. But the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) said just over a third – 155 out of 455 – of high rise buildings with similar flammable cladding to Grenfell have had it replaced to date.…
MPs blast government for inaction as flats remain covered in dangerous cladding
Public Accounts Committee says housing ministry must get a grip on delays in removing flammable material An influential committee of MPs has lambasted the government for “badly missing” its own target on removing dangerous cladding from high-rise housing blocks. The committee said tens of thousands of residents were still […] Click here to view original…
Committee condemns ‘pie-in-the-sky’ cladding promises
Thousands of people are at risk because of ‘serious shortcomings’ in the Government’s long-term response to the Grenfell Tower fire. A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has revealed that three years after the Grenfell fire, only a third (155 out of 455) of high-rise buildings with flammable […] Click here to view original…
Tories’ failure to replace Grenfell-style cladding leaves people ‘living in fear’
Dangerous cladding similar to that on Grenfell Tower remains on hundreds of high rise buildings (Pic: Tens of thousands of people are suffering stress living in unsafe buildings because of the Tories’ failure to get rid of dangerous cladding . A report from the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of […] Click here to view original…
Cladding red tape ‘stops people selling homes’
Young and vulnerable people are stuck with homes they can’t sell because of red tape around cladding, a leaseholders’ charity says. Many high-street lenders ask for an EWS1 form as proof that cladding is safe but leaseholders say they are struggling to get hold of the form. The Leasehold […] Click here to view original…
TV star calls on government to fix the growing leaseholder cladding scandal
Chanel 4 TV presenter and MoveIQ founder Phil Spencer has made a rare foray into politics and called for the government to take action to help the estimated 500,000 leaseholders caught up in the growing cladding scandal. Leaseholders, including many who bought their homes through the government’s shared ownership […] Click here to view original…
UK government has failed to deliver on cladding promises
Tens of thousands of high-rise residents have been left trapped in unsellable homes because the UK government has failed to deliver on “pie-in-the-sky promises” to fix them, the public accounts committee has said. More than three years after the Grenfell Tower disaster in west London killed 72 people, the […] Click here to view original…
MPs blast government over cladding remediation failures
Public Accounts Committee says government must get a grip of delays in removing flammable cladding An influential committee of MPs has lambasted the government for “badly missing” its own target on removing dangerous cladding from high rise housing blocks. The committee said tens of thousands of residents were still […] Click here to view original…
Islington family urges housing association to remove their home’s ‘dangerous’ cladding
Lloyd’s Row. Picture: Google Maps A young Islington family has called for the flammable cladding encasing their flat to be removed with urgency. Luke Williams, his wife Sophie and their eight-month-old son Sam are currently living in Clerkenwell’s Lloyd’s Row in a building managed Notting Hill Genesis. Three years […] Click here to view original…
Peregrine falcons nesting in condemned Portsmouth tower block
Peregrine falcons are protected under the Wildlife & Countryside Act 1981 Peregrine falcons are nesting in one of two condemned tower blocks set for demolition. Portsmouth City Council said Leamington House and Horatia House would be demolished after work to strengthen them was estimated at £86m last year. The […] Click here to view original…