Data by the Building Safety Register finds 38 buildings with an estimated population of 9,600 people living in them have been forcibly evacuated (decanted) since Grenfell for fire or structural issues. Sky News correspondent @rachaelvenables Cladding crisis: Hundreds being made homeless 2:44 Why you can trust Sky News “The […]Click here to view original web…

Data by the Building Safety Register finds 38 buildings with an estimated population of 9,600 people living in them have been forcibly evacuated (decanted) since Grenfell for fire or structural issues. Sky News correspondent @rachaelvenables Cladding crisis: Hundreds being made homeless 2:44 Why you can trust Sky News “The […] Click here to view original…

“I saw people in corridors with their possessions in bin bags, with no idea where to go.” These are the images which have stuck with Nathan and Josh, from the night they and their neighbours were forced to leave their homes, the latest victims of the post-Grenfell building safety […] Click here to view original…

Data by the Building Safety Register finds 38 buildings with an estimated population of 9,600 people living in them have been forcibly evacuated (decanted) since Grenfell for fire or structural issues. Sky News correspondent @rachaelvenables Cladding crisis: Hundreds being made homeless 2:44 Why you can trust Sky News “The […] Click here to view original…

James Greenwood says ‘waking watch’ patrols make life a financial nightmare for leaseholders with rapidly rising fees. The ongoing costs of round-the-clock fire patrols in residential tower blocks is becoming a “financial nightmare” a resident has said. More than 180 residential buildings in London have patrols known as waking […] Click here to view original…

Residents of Gilton House in Brislington have been told work on their tower block will take a year longer than previously thought Council tenants living in a tower block in Brislington have been left freezing due to delays in replacement of the building’s cladding. Most tenants living in Gilton […] Click here to view original…

This is the second time the St Francis Tower has experienced water damage A tower block which has been subject to cladding remedial works since 2018 has suffered another severe water leak. A leak occurred in St Francis Tower in Ipswich on the 13th floor on 14 December, causing […] Click here to view original…

Three high street lenders have signed up to offer mortgages to those with properties affected by building safety and cladding scandal issues. Skipton Building Society, TSB and Virgin Money have pledged to consider offering mortgages on properties with five or more storeys that have been affected by the cladding […] Click here to view original…

Three high street lenders have signed up to offer mortgages to those with properties affected by building safety and cladding scandal issues. Skipton Building Society, TSB and Virgin Money have pledged to consider offering mortgages on properties with five or more storeys that have been affected by the cladding […] Click here to view original…

I am acutely aware of the financial and emotional strain that leaseholders, or owners in Scotland, living in buildings with unsafe cladding and fire safety issues awaiting remediation continue to experience. In June I provided an update on the progress to launch a Fire Safety Reinsurance Facility. The Facility, […] Click here to view original…

People in flats with and without cladding have been left unable to move without the safety checks New guidance has been released aimed at reducing the number of wall safety surveys being requested by banks and building societies on blocks of flats. Thousands of flat owners have been unable […] Click here to view original…

AFP Cladding being removed from building in Manchester in 2017 Flat owners will not have to pay to remove dangerous cladding from lower-height buildings under new government plans, BBC Newsnight understands. It means leaseholders in buildings of between 11 and 18.5m will no longer be expected to take out […] Click here to view original…