Cladding crisis: south London block of flats could be demolished and rebuilt as safety flaws prove critical
A block of flats in south London could be razed to the ground because demolishing it will be cheaper than trying to fix its critical safety flaws. The drastic move follows a post-Grenfell inspection of Citiscape, a Barratt-owned building in Croydon , carried out in 2019. It revealed that […]Click here to view original web…
Cladding crisis: safety concerns, stalled sales and a hunt for cash buyers — meet the Londoners still stuck in unsellable homes
Shutterstock / Artem Yampolcev Her first home is a one bedroom flat in Isleworth , west London, which her parents, Rob Jenkins, 31, and Katherine James, 32, spent £360,000 on buying in February 2017. The couple had never imagined the starter flat would end up being their long term, […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis: safety concerns, stalled sales and a hunt for cash buyers — meet the Londoners still stuck in unsellable homes
At six months old Maeve Jenkins is one of the youngest victims of the cladding crisis. Her first home is a one bedroom flat in Isleworth , west London, which her parents, Rob Jenkins, 31, and Katherine James, 32, spent £360,000 on buying in February 2017. The couple had […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis: safety concerns, stalled sales and a hunt for cash buyers — meet the Londoners still stuck in unsellable homes
(Shutterstock / Artem Yampolcev) At six months old Maeve Jenkins is one of the youngest victims of the cladding crisis. Her first home is a one bedroom flat in Isleworth , west London, which her parents, Rob Jenkins, 31, and Katherine James, 32, spent £360,000 on buying in February […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis: safety concerns, stalled sales and a hunt for cash buyers — meet the Londoners still stuck in unsellable homes
At six months old Maeve Jenkins is one of the youngest victims of the cladding crisis. Her first home is a one bedroom flat in Isleworth , west London, which her parents, Rob Jenkins, 31, and Katherine James, 32, spent £360,000 on buying in February 2017. The couple had […] Click here to view original…
Cladding crisis: safety concerns, stalled sales and a hunt for cash buyers — meet the Londoners still stuck in unsellable homes
(Shutterstock / Artem Yampolcev) At six months old Maeve Jenkins is one of the youngest victims of the cladding crisis. Her first home is a one bedroom flat in Isleworth , west London, which her parents, Rob Jenkins, 31, and Katherine James, 32, spent £360,000 on buying in February […] Click here to view original…
‘Severe consequences’ for refusal to remediate cladding
The Housing Secretary has sent a warning to cladding shareholders of “severe consequences” for manufacturers if they do not bring forward comprehensive remediation packages. Shareholders in three cladding companies, whose shocking practices were uncovered in evidence heard at the Grenfell Inquiry, have been warned by the government that the […] Click here to view original…
The Guardian view on Tory housing policy: profits ahead of people
‘Almost 5m homes are still vulnerable to acquisitive freeholders.’ The leasehold system of property ownership in England and Wales is a feudal relic, a hangover from the middle ages when powerful families wanted to retain ownership of their land while maximising their earnings from it. In recent years it […] Click here to view original…
Round-the-clock fire patrols as Sunderland flats deemed risk
Cladding at Sunderland’s Echo 24 building has deemed at risk By Jim Scott BBC News Hundreds of residents living in a city centre block of flats have been told the building’s cladding is a fire risk. A “waking watch” – meaning the building is monitored every hour of the […] Click here to view original…
Secretive Italian count with as much farmland as King in cladding row
Michael Gove says Count Luca Padulli, top left, who has an estate in Barton Bendish, Norfolk, and owns the Quebec block of flats in Manchester, is avoiding liability From his 16th-century moated estate in Norfolk, Count Luca Padulli sits upon a business empire that includes as much UK farmland […] Click here to view original…
Fusion rejigs Manchester student block to add second staircase
The scheme (right) was approved at appeal last year. Credit: via planning documents A proposed 28-storey building will lose 5% of its planned rooms as the developer looks to meet the demands of emerging fire safety legislation. Fusion’s Deansgate South student scheme in Manchester – which was granted planning […] Click here to view original…
What is leasehold, and are there any alternatives?
Supporters of leasehold reform protesting outside the Houses of Parliament in 2021. What is leasehold? Given that they have paid large sums for their homes, leaseholders might be surprised to find that they are in a landlord and tenant relationship with the freeholder. The rights and obligations on both […] Click here to view original…