Rainham MP slams Tories for voting down Grenfell Tower fire safety recommendations
The fire engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in west London. Picture: PA The MP for Rainham has slammed the government after Tory counterparts voted against recommendations made during the Grenfell Tower inquiry. An amendment tabled by the Labour Party to the Fire Safety Bill, aimed at including proposals made […] Click here to view original…
Long-awaited Hanover Tower report to be released
The cladding on Hanover Tower, on Exeter Drive, Broomhall, failed fire safety tests introduced in the wake of the Grenfell disaster in 2017. That year the council launched an independent investigation into why it was put on the building. A number of promises were made about when that report […] Click here to view original…
Dagenham MP slams Tories for voting down Grenfell Tower fire safety recommendations
The fire engulfed the 24-storey Grenfell Tower in west London. Picture: PA The MP for Dagenham has slammed the government after Tory counterparts voted against recommendations made during the Grenfell Tower inquiry. An amendment tabled by the Labour Party to the Fire Safety Bill, aimed at including proposals made […] Click here to view original…
‘Defective’ cavity barriers ‘contributed nothing’ to slow fire in Worcester Park blaze, report reveals
A timber-framed housing association block in which a serious fire broke out last year was fitted with “defective” cavity barriers that “contributed nothing to control of the fire”, a report obtained by Inside Housing reveals. Richmond House during the blaze (picture: London Fire Brigade) Sharelines Richmond House – a […] Click here to view original…
Government cladding response welcomed but speedy action needed
The Government has published its response to the House of Commons, Communities and Local Government Select Committee’s (HCLG) report on cladding: progress of remediation, following the tragedy of Grenfell Tower. Law firm Collyer Bristow has commented on this response that proposals on External Fire Wall Review (EWS1) reporting and […] Click here to view original…
Distraught caller demands Government action on cladding fiasco
This caller demanded for the public to pressurise the Government into helping those living in flammable homes before investing £12 billion in new housing. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick was put to task this morning by Nick Ferrari over Government plans to spend £12 billion on new housing while 3 […] Click here to view original…
‘Lack of pulling together’ slowing down cladding work: Sir Bob Neill
(2) A “lack of pulling together” is preventing swifter progress in the remediation of thousands of homes covered in Grenfell-style flammable cladding, including Bromley’s at-risk Northpoint tower, MP Bob Neill has told the House of Commons. Sir Bob highlighted the plight of residents living in the 10-storey north Bromley […] Click here to view original…
Jenrick challenged on Government’s handling of cladding on ‘unsellable’ homes
Nick Ferrari confronts the Housing Secretary over the issue of unsafe cladding which has left 3 million people trapped in unsellable homes. Millions of desperate people are now trapped in homes with unsafe cladding which has rendered their properties entirely worthless, LBC has found . The crisis has its […] Click here to view original…
Manchester ‘unsure’ of start date for final cladding work
Residents of another Manchester building, Skyline Central, are ineligible for funding to replace cladding Work to remove dangerous material from six of the 12 privately owned high-rise residential blocks in Manchester found to have unsafe cladding has yet to start, according to the city council. The blocks in question […] Click here to view original…
The time for half measures on the cladding scandal is long gone
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Labour bids to amend Fire Safety Bill in wake of “shameful” failure to remove unsafe cladding
Labour will try to amend the legislation due before Parliament and force the Government to implement the recommendations of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s Phase One Report , published back in October 2019. The move comes after the latest Government figures released last month showed that Grenfell Tower-style ACM cladding […] Click here to view original…
Labour calls for Grenfell recommendations to be made law
LABOUR is seeking legislative reforms to fire safety as ministers have made a “shameful” lack of progress in dealing with concerns since the 2017 Grenfell Tower tragedy, the party said yesterday. It said that it plans to use the Fire Safety Bill to try to force the government to […] Click here to view original…