Basildon tower block to replace cladding due to fire risk
Plans – The Icon in Southernhay, Basildon (Image: Google Maps) FIRE risk cladding at a Basildon town centre tower block will be pulled down and replaced in a bid to give “peace of mind” to residents. The cladding at The Icon building – 127 flats in Southernhay – has […]Click here to view original web…
Combustible cladding nightmare prompts calls for urgent reform
Thousands of Victorians have enormous costs hanging over their heads after being stuck in combustible cladding nightmares through no fault of their own. Peter and Angela Collins are living in a cladding nightmare. Picture: Jake Nowakowski More from news ‘Tree-change’ suburb reversal signals price plunge Half-burned home for sale […] Click here to view original…
Cladding: Tenants’ misery over Salford tower block delays
Residents living in tower blocks where the cladding has been removed but not yet replaced say they are “depressed and embarrassed” by the situation. 28 April 2023 Evacuation Other Business Support Fire Risk Assessment Tenants in the flats in Pendleton, Salford, said they were relieved when the cladding was […] Click here to view original…
‘The post-Grenfell cladding scandal has left me penniless and about to go bankrupt’
Malcolm Cameron-Lee (left), pictured with his wife Malcolm Cameron-Lee thought he was doing the right thing when he decided to invest his life savings into property 20 years ago to fund a comfortable retirement. At the time, “pension schemes were being mismanaged” and, as an electrical contractor, he believed […] Click here to view original…
Fresh war between Keir and the Corbynites: In wake of Diane Abbott suspension now another Corbyn ally disappears as ex-MP Emma Dent Coad quits Labour with blast at Keir Starmer for accepting football freebie from firm forced to pay out £11m over cladding
Former MP Emma Dent Coad has become the latest Jeremy Corbyn ally to leave Labour after she quit the party with a blast at Sir Keir Starmer . The 68-year-old, who was MP for Kensington between 2017 and 2019, revealed she had ‘regretfully’ left Labour after nearly 40 years […] Click here to view original…
‘The post-Grenfell cladding scandal has left me penniless and about to go bankrupt’
Malcolm Cameron-Lee (l), pictured with his wife Malcolm Cameron-Lee thought he was doing the right thing when he decided to invest his lifesavings into property twenty years ago to fund a comfortable retirement. At the time, “pension schemes were being mismanaged” and, as an electrical contractor, he believed “the […] Click here to view original…
Gosport politicians say Sir Keir Starrmer should not have taken football tickets from cladding firm
Councillors and Dame Caroline Dinenage MP have criticised the Labour leader’s acceptance of tickets, worth £1,070, from Mulalley & Co Limited. The Essex-based construction firm was ordered by the High Court last year to pay out £10.8m over defective cladding on five tower blocks in Gosport . Advertisement Hide […] Click here to view original…
U.K. asks money managers to engage with cladding companies after deadly fire
The remains of Grenfell Tower in North Kensington, London, U.K. The U.K. government wants the largest money managers to better engage with cladding companies they own so they fix unsafe buildings. Following an inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire, which broke out in London in 2017 and killed 72 […] Click here to view original…
Government threatened ‘severe consequences’ if cladding deal is not reached
Three cladding companies, whose poor practices were uncovered by the Grenfell Tower incident, have been issued a severe warning by the Housing Secretary if they fail to provide a comprehensive financial package to fix unsafe buildings. Michael Gove has written to investors in Ireland’s Kingspan, US-based Arconic, and France’s […] Click here to view original…
Cladding: Tenants’ misery over Salford tower block delays
Tenants say they feel like they are living on a permanent building site By Abbie Jones Social affairs correspondent, BBC North West Residents living in tower blocks where the cladding has been removed but not yet replaced say they are “depressed and embarrassed” by the situation. Tenants in the […] Click here to view original…
New build in Elephant and Castle has been empty for nearly 4 years due to delayed cladding repairs
A new build in Elephant and Castle has been empty for nearly four years after residents were forced to move out due to unsafe cladding – and remedial works still haven’t started. In 2019, tenants and leaseholders of 26-28 Arch Street in Elephant and Castle, were forced to move […] Click here to view original…
Cladding scandal: London £400m left unspent on making buildings safe – Government told to ‘get a grip’
The government has been accused of failing to “get a grip of the building safety crisis”, after new data shows that less than £1bn has been spent replacing dangerous non-ACM cladding from people’s homes. The Building Safety Fund (BSF), which pays for the remediation of unsafe non-aluminium composite material […] Click here to view original…