Crown Heights residents able to open windows by ‘up to’ 10cm during cladding work (Image: Newsquest) RESIDENTS in a Basingstoke apartment block will be able to open their windows during work to remove potentially dangerous cladding by ‘up to’ 10cm, it has now been said. As previously reported, residents […]Click here to view original web…

It seems barely a day goes by without there being a story in the news about some building-related defect, at the moment its RAACS and the ensuing raft of building closures. Not so long ago it was cladding. You will no doubt remember the Grenfell Fire Tragedy and the […] Click here to view original…

Matthew Harris, with his daughter Ella, received a £100,000 cladding bill After three years in limbo, Caroline Stimpson, 39, celebrated the end of her cladding ordeal with a family dinner. She had finally sold her flat. “The weight only lifted when I met the buyer at the property and […] Click here to view original…

Crown Heights residents unable to open windows for 14 months during cladding removal (Image: Newsquest) RESIDENTS in an apartment block in Basingstoke will not be able to open their windows for 14 months and will lose the use of an outside children’s play area while work is carried out […] Click here to view original…

Crown Heights residents unable to open windows for 14 months during cladding removal (Image: Newsquest) RESIDENTS in an apartment block in Basingstoke will not be able to open their windows for 14 months and will lose the use of an outside children’s play area while work is carried out […] Click here to view original…

About our UK Cladding Scandal news Latest news on the UK cladding scandal, a social crisis that affects thousands of UK residents who live in buildings that have been clad in dangerously combustible materials, which pose a high risk of fire spread. The scandal was exposed by the Grenfell […] Click here to view original…

Emergency services at the scene near the Grenfell Tower Firefighters and call handlers shattered by the Grenfell tragedy have taken more than 6,000 days off due to the psychological damage. Union bosses say the June 2017 inferno in West London, in which 72 died, left many workers traumatised. Twenty […] Click here to view original…

Emergency services at the scene near the Grenfell Tower Firefighters and call handlers shattered by the Grenfell tragedy have taken more than 6,000 days off due to the psychological damage. Union bosses say the June 2017 inferno in West London, in which 72 died, left many workers traumatised. Twenty […] Click here to view original…

Tom Hunt focuses his column this week on the ongoing building safety scandal and his work with The Mill residents. (Image: Archant) It’s hard to think of a greater scandal in the Town right now than the building safety scandal. Approximately 1,000 of my constituents are now caught up […] Click here to view original…

Cladding that is no longer compliant has been identified at a block of around 50 flats in Northampton , the council has confirmed. Alliston Gardens, in Semilong, which is managed by Northampton Partnership Homes (NPH) was found to have non-compliant cladding during a Homes England Safety Scheme pilot where […] Click here to view original…

The Building Safety Act 2022 and its accompanying legislation seek to address issues regarding building safety brought starkly into view by the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. Beyond the tragedy of the fire itself, the event (and subsequent inquiry) highlighted the need for building safety remediation works to many […] Click here to view original…

Following the tragedy of the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017, the widespread use of dangerous, inappropriate cladding materials on multi-storey buildings was brought to the attention of the market and the regulators. In the near six years since, buildings with existing cladding have awaited assessment by specialists to […] Click here to view original…