Families are exhausting all their savings to pay sky-high mortgages on homes they are not even living in and cannot sell because of unsafe cladding. At the start of August, the Bank of England raised the base interest rate for the 14th consecutive time to a 15-year high of […]Click here to view original web…

Image source, Image caption, Cladding and structural safety issues have been found at the tower block in Ipswich Funds for fire safety measures at a tower block could run out by early next year after administrators were forced to pay off a creditor for the building’s freeholder. The Mill, […] Click here to view original…

Secretary of State for Housing singles out Town Hall leader for a scolding over ‘multitude of failings’ Cllr Georgia Gould and Michael Gove [Simon Dawson_No10 Downing Street] THE Secretary of State for Housing sent a personal letter to the Town Hall leader saying he is “profoundly troubled” about “your […] Click here to view original…

Arbour House Potentially harmful cladding is likely to be removed from two blocks of student accommodation in Islington . Unite Students has asked for planning permission to take the building material off two seven-storey blocks of student flats in Clerkenwell and near Pentonville prison. It is the latest application […] Click here to view original…

PICTURED: Nottinghamshire Fire & Rescue headquarters in Arnold Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said it is unable to publicly name 23 buildings it has identified as ‘high risk’. The service identified the buildings on its patch following the Grenfell Tower disaster, which killed 72 people in 2017. The Local […] Click here to view original…

The former Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service headquarters By Anna Whittaker, Local Democracy Reporter Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service said it is unable to publicly name 23 buildings it has identified as ‘high risk’. The service identified the buildings on its patch following the Grenfell Tower disaster, which killed […] Click here to view original…

Unsafe cladding will be removed from the Phoenix building in the new year. Unsafe cladding on a prominent city centre building is set to be removed next year. The Leicester City Council -owned Phoenix building, which is home to 63 privately-owned apartments, is covered in a type of cladding […] Click here to view original…

Will Kingspan nudge up full-year profit guidance? Will there be a Kingspansion of profits? Source: edie Kingspan Group PLC (LSE:KGP) results will be all about the outlook and whether profit guidance has been upped. Back in early July, the insulation and cladding specialist said half-year underlying profit (EBITA) will […] Click here to view original…

(Image: Anthony Baggett via Dreamstime.com) The government launched on 21 July a Responsible Actors Scheme (RAS) requiring residential developers to pay for building safety remediation work. Elegible developers who do not join the scheme, or later fail to comply with its conditions, will be effectively frozen out of the […] Click here to view original…

In February last year, Michael Gove committed to new laws to “protect leaseholders from exorbitant costs” needed to fix the fire-risk cladding scandal. But a year and a half later, some flat owners feel far from protected. Those who live in flats cursed with dangerous cladding may have been […] Click here to view original…

In February last year, Michael Gove committed to new laws to “protect leaseholders from exorbitant costs” needed to fix the fire-risk cladding scandal. But a year and a half later, some flat owners feel far from protected. Those who live in flats cursed with dangerous cladding may have been […] Click here to view original…

In February last year, Michael Gove committed to new laws to “protect leaseholders from exorbitant costs” needed to fix the fire-risk cladding scandal. But a year and a half later, some flat owners feel far from protected. Those who live in flats cursed with dangerous cladding may have been […] Click here to view original…