Revealed: The five checks you must do before snapping up a bargain apartment during the pandemic if you want to make money in the future
New homeowners looking to buy a cheap apartment during the pandemic are being warned to look out for key factors that will help them to cash in later. Economist Andrew Wilson says it’s important not just to focus on price and that inner city regions are often weak contenders […] Click here to view original…
Labour bid to amend fire safety bill after “shameful” failure to remove cladding
Labour will try to amend the government’s fire safety bill this week, after it emerged that over 80% of private sector accommodation with Grenfell-style flammable cladding has not had the dangerous material removed. The party will try to amend the legislation due before parliament on Monday and force the […] Click here to view original…
Thousands of UK flat owners can’t sell due to fire safety holdup
Thousands of flat owners face months, possibly years, of being unable to sell or remortgage because they cannot get hold of new fire safety paperwork required by banks and building societies. Rules brought in after the Grenfell fire, which killed 72 people in 2017, mean surveyors acting for mortgage […] Click here to view original…
Questions mount over ‘incredibly dangerous’ Hatfield tower block
The front door of Queensway House. Picture: Charlotte McLaughlin Ahead of a meeting on a Hatfield tower block’s safety next week, councillors and fire experts have asked questions about the “incredibly dangerous” cladding. Both Labour and Liberal Democrat Welwyn Hatfield borough councillors have voiced concern after the WHT reported […] Click here to view original…
Government dismisses call to expand £1.6bn cladding fund
Housing ministry says building owners should meet costs of repairing unsafe high-rises The government has rejected calls by a committee of MPs to expand its £1.6bn building safety fund to cover the remediation of high-rise blocks with unsafe cladding. In June, the housing, communities and local government select committee […] Click here to view original…
Government rejects call to expand £1.6bn cladding fund
Housing ministry says building owners should meet costs of repairing unsafe high-rises The government has rejected calls by a committee of MPs to expand its £1.6bn building safety fund to cover the remediation of high-rise blocks with unsafe cladding. In June, the housing, communities and local government select committee […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell-style cladding yet to be stripped from 11 blocks in former Olympic Athletes’ Village
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Sadiq Khan demands action from owners of buildings with dangerous cladding
The Mayor of London has written to more than 40 London landlords to demand they begin work to remove dangerous aluminium composite materials (ACM) cladding immediately. In a letter to building owners who have had funding applications approved but are yet to start remediation work, Sadiq Khan has urged […] Click here to view original…
Thousands of London families still live in unsafe buildings: mayor
London Mayor Sadiq Khan announced Wednesday he has demanded that 47 property owners and four social landlords in the British capital should remove dangerous cladding from their residential blocks. City Hall said three years after the devastating Grenfell Tower fire, Khan is deeply concerned that thousands of Londoners are […] Click here to view original…
RICS highlights importance of expertise required to sign off EWS1 forms
The EWS1 is a form introduced as part of a new External Wall Fire Review process valuing high-rise buildings. The EWS1 form was introduced in December last year in response to the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. The form designates whether the external wall of a building, or attachments […] Click here to view original…
Sadiq Khan hits out at 51 landlords for not removing dangerous cladding
(via Getty Images) Mayor of London Sadiq Khan has slammed 51 London landlords for not removing dangerous cladding from their buildings in the wake of the 2017 Grenfell disaster. Khan wrote to 47 private landlords and four social landlords who had been given government funding to remove cladding in […] Click here to view original…
Khan writes to 51 private and social landlords over ‘unacceptable’ pace of Grenfell-style cladding removal
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