A health and safety inspector found cladding lying on residents’ balconies at a Liverpool apartment block, posing a serious fire risk. The combustible cladding was similar to that used on Grenfell Tower when the 2017 disaster occurred. Green Facades Limited had been contracted to remove the potentially dangerous aluminium […]Click here to view original web…

Green Facades Limited at Henry Street, Liverpool City Centre A company was fined over £200,000 after leaving “Grenfell Tower-like” cladding on balconies at a block of city flats. London company Green Facades Limited was contracted to remove potentially dangerous aluminium composite panels and combustible insulation material from The Circle […] Click here to view original…

The Building Safety Act provides for leaseholders to be protected from having to pay for remediation of fire safety defects in their blocks, but who is ultimately going to foot the bill? Ron Alalouff examines a number of cases which may point the way. In what is believed to […] Click here to view original…

Gary Lake said the value of the flats he owns has dropped because the cladding has not being replaced By Pam Caulfield BBC News Flat owners have called for a change in the law to give them more control over replacing unsafe cladding. A leaseholders’ group at Ninety4 on […] Click here to view original…

The Building Safety Act provides for leaseholders to be protected from having to pay for remediation of fire safety defects in their blocks, but who is ultimately going to foot the bill? Ron Alalouff examines a number of cases which may point the way. In what is believed to […] Click here to view original…

Gary Lake said the value of the flats he owns has dropped because the cladding has not being replaced By Pam Caulfield BBC News Flat owners have called for a change in the law to give them more control over replacing unsafe cladding. A leaseholder’s group at Ninety4 on […] Click here to view original…

Gary Lake said the value of the six flats he owns in the development has dropped as a result of the unsafe cladding not being replaced By Pam Caulfield BBC News Flat owners have called for a change in the law to give them more control over replacing unsafe […] Click here to view original…

Cladding being removed from a block of flats (picture: Alamy) Sharelines Chaplair Limited failed to meet a deadline of March 2021 to remove dangerous cladding from its Lumiere Building, a block of flats in Forest Gate. In July, Westminster Magistrates’ Court heard that the block of 71 flats had […] Click here to view original…

Lumiere House, Forest Gate, London. Image © 2023 Google The owner of a nine-storey building in east London has been prosecuted for missing a deadline to remediate unsafe cladding, despite blaming contractual delays with Willmott Dixon. Newham Council brought the charges against Chaplair Limited for failing to respond to […] Click here to view original…

Over a quarter of London’s high-rise residential buildings with dangerous cladding are yet to have remediation work completed, more than six years after the Grenfell Tower fire. Remediation work has been completed on 200 buildings over 18m tall in London (picture: Alamy) Sharelines Over a quarter of London’s high-rise […] Click here to view original…

The owner of an east London tower block has been found guilty in a landmark criminal case over delays in replacing dangerous cladding after the Grenfell Tower disaster. Chaplair Limited faced prosecution by Newham Council after it failed to meet a March 2021 deadline for work on the Lumiere […] Click here to view original…

Newham Council has become the first local authority to successfully prosecute a building owner for failing to meet their cladding removal deadline under the Housing Act 2004. Lumiere building at 544 Romford Road, London had dangerous cladding which should have been removed from the building by 31 March 2021, […] Click here to view original…