Government’s fire safety plan ‘will fund just 12 new inspectors to cover two million homes’
Flats are covered by the new bill ( AFP via Getty Images ) The government’s new Fire Safety Bill would fund just 12 new officials to help cover safety inspections in two million homes, firefighters have claimed. The Fire Brigades Union accused the government of risking another Grenfell -style […] Click here to view original…
Fact check: how many people live in buildings with dangerous cladding?
A widely cited figure of 56,000 underestimates how many people live in dangerous buildings. What is the real figure, asks Peter Apps Picture: Getty Short answer: There is no way of calculating the overall number of people impacted by the country’s building safety crisis, but it will undoubtedly stretch […] Click here to view original…
Failure to remove cladding could be breach of international law, UN tells UK government
The UN has warned the UK government that its failure to replace dangerous cladding on buildings in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire could be a breach of international law. Picture: Getty Sharelines In April, Leilani Farha, who was the the UN’s special rapporteur on adequate housing, wrote […] Click here to view original…
UK could be breaking international law over cladding, says UN
The UN has warned Britain that its failure to strip combustible cladding from high-rise buildings containing tens of thousands homes may be a breach of international law. In a fresh headache for the housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, the global body is demanding answers about the UK government’s delayed programme […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell style ACM cladding being removed from six blocks at Glasgow Harbour
(2) Work has starting to remove potentially dangerous cladding form tower blocks at Glasgow Harbour. Six blocks, including the two tallest on the riverside, are to have the ACM (aluminium composite material) cladding removed and replaced with non combustible solid aluminium cladding. The ACM was the type of cladding […] Click here to view original…
Parliamentary report exposes widespread fire-safety failings three years on from Grenfell Tower inferno
Three years on from the deadly Grenfell Tower fire, around 2,000 high-rise residential or publicly owned buildings are still covered with dangerous cladding, says a cross-party parliamentary report. Titled “Cladding: Progress of Remediation,” the report by Parliament’s Housing, Communities and Local Government (HCLG) committee exposes the deadly conditions still […] Click here to view original…
Cladding case goes ahead after time-limitation argument rejected | Construction News
A judge has paved the way for a £4m cladding remediation claim to go to trial, with the building’s former owner allegedly concealing that refurbishment work had not been signed off by Building Control. The case has been brought by Regis Group subsidiary RG Securities, which is seeking £3.6m to fix a building it acquired…
More than 50,000 living with dangerous cladding
There are 56,000 people living in buildings with unsafe Grenfell-style cladding, new analysis has revealed. Labour has warned that three years after the tragedy that claimed the lives of 72 people, three quarters of people living in buildings covered with deadly ACM cladding have still not had it removed. […] Click here to view original…
Cash for very big favours: Murky links in a £1billion property deal involving Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick and billionaire tycoon Richard Desmond as row threatens to engulf No10
Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick was under mounting pressure last night after his links to a lobbyist for a Tory donor’s £1 billion property deal were exposed by The Mail on Sunday. Mr Jenrick is fighting for his Cabinet job after becoming embroiled in a deeply embarrassing ‘cash for favours’ […] Click here to view original…
Go Green For Grenfell
2020 marks the third anniversary of Grenfell fire. However, due to social distancing this year’s silent walk can’t take place. So supporters are being asked to GO GREEN FOR GRENFELL. Click here to view original web page at www.gogreenforgrenfell.com
UKCAG on Radio 4 You and Yours consumer affairs programme
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