First high-rise in Scotland has dangerous Grenfell-style cladding removed
Pilot: Cladding at the Aurora Apartments in Ferryhill have been replaced with safer alternatives. A block of flats in Aberdeen has become the first in Scotland to have dangerous cladding removed – seven years after 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire. The Aurora Apartments in Ferryhill are […]Click here to view original web…
Outrage at plan to compensate elderly residents £325 for Bristol cladding scandal
Residents of Gilton House a tower block in Brislington, which has had scaffolding around it for two years, outside City Hall, after asking questions to councillors about their situation Elderly residents living in a block of flats left without cladding for two years could be compensated just £325 for […] Click here to view original…
Woolwich Central cladding remediation works are ‘nightmare’
Scaffolding is seeing around a block of flats in Love Lane in Woolwich south London, Britain 11 July 2024. Facundo Arrizabalaga/MyLondon. Greenwich leaseholders have claimed they are unable to sell their flats due to ‘nightmare’ cladding remediation works on their building. Woolwich Central is a structure in South East […] Click here to view original…
Woolwich residents ‘can’t sell flats’ after ‘nightmare cladding’ works that left holes in windows letting in rain
-Credit: (Image: Facundo Arrizabalaga/MyLondon) Greenwich leaseholders have claimed they are unable to sell their flats due to ‘nightmare’ cladding remediation works on their building. Woolwich Central is a structure in South East London comprising a series of seven blocks of flats sitting above a large Tesco Extra store. The […] Click here to view original…
How will Labour handle cladding and leasehold issue?
Marisa Abrahams (Legal Director) and Claire Lamkin (Partner) are in the real estate & construction team at law firm Kingsley Napley Whilst the housebuilding side of Angela Rayner’s new role of Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government has garnered headlines in the first week of the […] Click here to view original…
Redrow’s building safety tussle explained
4 hours Irwin Mitchell solicitors Alex Delin and Natalie Cane explain the implications of a recent legal reverse for Redrow in an argument with the government. Redrow’s Hemsiphere apartments in Birmingham [Google Streetview] Redrow has had a judicial review dismissed after it challenged an order to reimburse £30m that […] Click here to view original…
London buildings still wrapped in Grenfell-style cladding seven years on from the disaster
Grenfell Tower was covered in a cladding known as aluminium composite material (ACM) PA Wire The Government was on Friday urged to do more in tackling dangerous cladding seven years on from the Grenfell Tower fire. Tom Copley, the capital’s deputy mayor for housing , warned that leaseholders unable […] Click here to view original…
Hamish Paterson: New cladding legislation is positive progress for fire safety
Hamish Paterson Thomas & Adamson partner Hamish Paterson provides his take on new legislation giving Scottish Ministers powers to assess and remediate buildings which have unsafe cladding. In mid-May, the Scottish Parliament voted unanimously to pass new legislation that will speed up the removal of potentially flammable cladding materials […] Click here to view original…
Temple Bright advises managing agent Remus on ‘challenging’ fire safety remediation project
Bristol and London law firm Temple Bright is advising national property managing agent Remus Management on fire safety remediation work at a development in Essex that involves removing and replacing its cladding. Temple Bright construction partner Julia Davenport-Cooper leads the advice to Remus. In 2022 Julia, pictured , advised […] Click here to view original…
Block residents ‘horrified’ by £29k insurance bill
Image caption, Rachel Clayton said she was “shocked” when the bill dropped through the door Robby West BBC News, Norfolk Published26 June 2024 Leaseholders in a block of flats with unsafe cladding say they are shocked after being left with a £29,000 bill to insure the building. Issues with […] Click here to view original…
Block residents ‘horrified’ by £29k insurance bill
Rachel Clayton said she was “shocked” when the bill dropped through the door [BBC] Leaseholders in a block of flats with unsafe cladding say they are shocked after being left with a £29,000 bill to insure the building. Issues with the cladding mean that traditional insurers will not cover […] Click here to view original…
Hamish Paterson: New cladding legislation is positive progress for fire safety
Hamish Paterson Thomas & Adamson partner Hamish Paterson provides his take on new legislation giving Scottish Ministers powers to assess and remediate buildings which have unsafe cladding. In mid-May, the Scottish Parliament voted unanimously to pass new legislation that will speed up the removal of potentially flammable cladding materials […] Click here to view original…