Gove attacks rail pension fund over dangerous cladding at flats
Dangerous cladding has been a national issue since the Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people died Michael Gove has launched an stinging attack on one of the country’s biggest pension funds, accusing it of failing to fix “life-critical” fire risks at ten buildings it owns with dangerous cladding. […]Click here to view original web…
Emerson Group signs cladding contract
The firm had previously said Michael Gove had given a “misleading” impression of its behaviour The Emerson Group has signed the government’s cladding contract, leaving only four firms out of the 11 that missed the government’s original deadline yet to commit. Yesterday just after 3.30pm the government confirmed Emerson […] Click here to view original…
DLUHC faces new cladding concerns nearly six years after Grenfell
A building in east London with its cladding removed. Photo: Google Maps Nearly six years after 72 lives were lost in the Grenfell Tower fire, MPs have set out a list of ongoing concerns about the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ approach to the building-safety crisis that […] Click here to view original…
Gove attacks rail pension fund over dangerous cladding at flats
Dangerous cladding has been a national issue since the Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people died Michael Gove has launched an stinging attack on one of the country’s biggest pension funds, accusing it of failing to fix “life-critical” fire risks at ten buildings it owns with dangerous cladding. […] Click here to view original…
Residents forced to leave waterside apartment block in Ipswich with cladding ‘more flammable’ than Grenfell Tower
Ron Alalouff reports on the chaos surrounding a residential block with a range of complex fire safety defects. A residential block in Ipswich poses such serious risk to residents that they were abruptly told to vacate the building after two prohibition notices in the space of four months were […] Click here to view original…
Coalition era policies contributed towards social housing failures, Gove says
Communities Secretary Michael Gove at BBC Broadcasting House in London (Stefan Rousseau/PA) The coalition government’s public spending squeeze contributed to the neglect faced by social housing tenants, Michael Gove has suggested. The Communities Secretary admitted the mistakes of successive governments had led to tragedies such as the Grenfell Tower […] Click here to view original…
Crown Heights: Work to get underway to remove cladding
Work to remove cladding at Basingstoke high rise to get underway WORK to remove potentially dangerous cladding on blocks of flats in Basingstoke will finally start this year – nearly six years after the Grenfell Fire tragedy. The external cladding at Crown Heights, which has around 250 flats, contains […] Click here to view original…
Gove attacks rail pension fund over dangerous cladding at flats
Dangerous cladding has been a national issue since the Grenfell Tower fire that killed 72 people Michael Gove has launched an stinging attack on one of the country’s biggest pension funds, accusing it of failing to fix “life-critical” fire risks at ten buildings it owns with dangerous cladding. Residents […] Click here to view original…
Galliard latest developer to sign cladding remediation contract
London developer criticised by Gove last month says it ’operates ethically’ and ‘champions integrity’ Galliard Homes has become the latest housebuilder to sign up to the government’s “self-remediation” contract, three weeks after it was named in Parliament as having failed to hit the deadline to do so. The £204m […] Click here to view original…
Alternative cost recovery for remediation works – consultation response
In February, the government opened a consultation on statutory guidance and policy proposals for legislation that would create a duty for landlords to take reasonable steps to ensure that all alternative avenues of cost recovery have been explored before passing remediation costs on to leaseholders. They asked for views […] Click here to view original…
Cladding makers must pay for crisis
While some developers have now committed to housing secretary Michael Gove’s contract to pay for unsafe building repairs, it’s critically only one piece of the puzzle. The government has placed all of its eggs in the basket of getting developers to stump up funding and, if that fails, to […] Click here to view original…
Cladding: Swansea flat owner’s cautious welcome on safety scheme
A flat owner has given a cautious welcome to the Welsh government’s new scheme to tackle fire safety defects in medium and high-rise residential buildings after the Grenfell tragedy. Fire Safety FD&A Other Fire and Rescue Equipment Business Support Fire Risk Assessment Interest – free loans will be offered […] Click here to view original…