REUTERS Hearings at the inquiry into the Grenfell Tower disaster are due to restart next month with most participants watching online due to the coronavirus pandemic. Inquiry chair Sir Martin Moore-Bick announced today he hopes to resume the evidence sessions on July 6, having halted the proceedings in March […]Click here to view original web…

Portsmouth City Councillor Darren Sanders at Leamington House in Earlsdon Street which is set to be deconstructed. Picture by: Malcolm Wells (180605-2128) Copyright: JPIMedia The city council is reviewing all privately owned buildings in Portsmouth that are over 18 metres tall that carry non-aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding, as […] Click here to view original…

Empire View MONTHS have passed by yet residents in several Southampton blocks are still living with unsafe cladding. It was discovered in February that two blocks at Empire View and a block at Gantry Court have High-Pressure Laminate (HPL) and insulation cladding. But a public government document states systems […] Click here to view original…

BeFirst is owned by Barking & Dagenham Council and aims to deliver 3,000 homes, as well as some new light industrial space, over the next five years. The arms-length regeneration company is already working with architects including Morris + Company, White Arkitekter, HTA Design, Haworth Tompkins, Archio and Pitman […] Click here to view original…

Contractor says money set aside in event it needs to carry out repair work Willmott Dixon said a provision of more than £6m to carry out possible repair work on cladding following the Grenfell Tower fire three years ago dragged profit down by 18% last year. In accounts filed […] Click here to view original…

The financial lifeline was thrown to them by the Chancellor in his March Budget but it will be withdrawn at the end of July. There is speculation that freeholders – those who own the building – are not rushing for a share of the money because the flat owners […] Click here to view original…

Attorney General Suella Braverman announced June 1 that any statements given to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry by “legal persons” cannot be used as evidence against them in a future prosecution. According to the “Factsheet” issued by the Attorney General’s office, a legal person includes any “limited liability partnership or […] Click here to view original…

The financial lifeline was thrown to them by the Chancellor in his March Budget but it will be withdrawn at the end of July. There is speculation that freeholders – those who own the building – are not rushing for a share of the money because the flat owners […] Click here to view original…

Vallea Court, pictured before the remediation operation, was found to have unsafe cladding in 2017 An operation to replace Grenfell-style, aluminium composite material, cladding from two residential blocks in Manchester’s Green Quarter is nearly over, as the Government laid out details of how to apply for the £1bn removal […] Click here to view original…

Ahead of the third anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire there are still 2,000 high risk residential buildings with some form of dangerous cladding. The consequences for home owners have been devastating, with properties becoming unmortgageable and unsellable. Many residents continue to pay hundreds of pounds a month for […] Click here to view original…

A couple from Southampton say they’re struggling with their mental health – because of where they live. Natasha Letchford and Jake Ellis are in a high rise block – in a building with unsafe cladding. They say the risk of fire, and the fact the cladding hasn’t been replaced, […] Click here to view original…

Credit: ITV Calendar There are warnings of a mental health crisis being faced by people living in tower blocks with potentially dangerous cladding. A campaign group has found that almost a quarter of residents nationwide surveyed felt suicidal or wanted to self harm while nine in 10 said their […] Click here to view original…