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City centre tower block to get new cladding

By News Feed | 13 March 2025

City centre tower block to get new cladding BBC News Kemley House in Hull is to have new cladding installed An apartment block in Hull city centre is to have new cladding installed to make it safer. Pure Block Management said it had received £2.7m from the government’s Cladding […]Click here to view original web…

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Flammable cladding helped fire spread across flats

By News Feed | 12 March 2025

About 300 people were evacuated from the building after the fire in August Flammable cladding and strong winds helped a blaze spread across an apartment building after a balcony’s light fitting caught fire, investigators have concluded. Nearly 300 residents were evacuated from Mosaic Apartments in Slough’s High Street just […] Click here to view original…

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£2.7m project to remove fire-risk cladding from city centre set to begin

By News Feed | 12 March 2025

Kemley House, Prospect Street, Hull Work to remove fire-risk cladding from a Hull city centre building will start next month. Kemley House, located at the junction of Ferensway, Prospect Street, and Spencer Street, is covered in dangerous combustible cladding on the southern and eastern facing sides of the building. […] Click here to view original…

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Cladding campaigners furious with the Senedd

By News Feed | 11 March 2025

News The Senedd. Image: Welsh Government Ted Peskett Local Democracy Reporter Cladding campaigners are outraged after the Senedd Commission refused their request to light up the Senedd building in Cardiff green to mark the anniversary of the Grenfell disaster. Welsh Cladiators, who are a group of campaigners fighting for […] Click here to view original…

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EXCLUSIVERevealed: Property tycoon who secured £4MILLION taxpayer grant to fix cladding on his apartment blocks is convicted fraudster who fleeced pensioners out of thousands

By News Feed | 9 March 2025

The businessmen behind an award winning property company seemed to have it all with dream homes, fast cars and many friends. Scott El Paraiso and Ross Spencer, both 41, were used to sweeping the board at industry awards events, and their business appeared to be booming. Urban Evolution Property […] Click here to view original…

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Tri Fire produced report that led to Mosaic Apartments cladding delay

By News Feed | 6 March 2025

3 A report that led to a delay in replacing flammable cladding on town centre flats hit by a major fire was produced by a man now found to have worked without competence and who is accused of fraud. Grenfell-style ACM cladding was found to have helped the rapid […] Click here to view original…

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Addressing inaction in the remediation of dangerous buildings

By News Feed | 3 March 2025

Dangerous Buildings Following the publication of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Report in September 2024, the government has been determined that remediation of dangerous buildings will not fall by the wayside. It’s been more than seven years since the fire and yet, of the 4,834 buildings 11 metres and over […] Click here to view original…

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Flat owner hit with £65,000 cladding bill as block too short

By News Feed | 3 March 2025

Tom says he worries constantly about how he’s going to pay to make his building safe Flat owners are being hit with huge bills for fire safety work because their blocks are not tall enough to qualify for funding announced after the Grenfell Tower fire. The previous government launched […] Click here to view original…

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Flat owner hit with £65,000 cladding bill as block too short

By News Feed | 1 March 2025

Tom says he worries constantly about how he’s going to pay to make his building safe Flat owners are being hit with huge bills for fire safety work because their blocks are not tall enough to qualify for funding announced after the Grenfell Tower fire. The previous government launched […] Click here to view original…

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Why flammable cladding wasn’t removed from Slough flats

By News Feed | 26 February 2025

3 Flammable, Grenfell Tower-style cladding had not been removed from Mosaic Apartments when it caught fire because the developer and freeholder didn’t agree on the safety work needed. The aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding contributed to the rapid spread of the fire at the block of flats on Slough […] Click here to view original…

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Crown Heights: High-rise building cladding work in progress

By News Feed | 25 February 2025

12 WORK to remove potentially dangerous cladding at Crown Heights is underway, with the progress captured by a Basingstoke resident in this gallery. Barry Walker shared the images of scaffolding on the high-rise apartment building in Alencon Link in the Basingstoke Gazette Camera Club. Remedial works to remove the […] Click here to view original…

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Cladding crisis ‘impacting apartment sales market’ says data firm

By News Feed | 24 February 2025

cladding crisis mobile phone The cladding crisis is so widespread that property data company PriceHubble claims it is contributing to the underperformance of flats in the UK property market compared to other property types. And those affected properties are experiencing significant declines in transaction volumes, with some areas seeing […] Click here to view original…