Cladding

Many flat sales are stalling due to a lack of meaningful progress on unsafe cladding repairs, estate agents have warned. A new report from the Public Accounts Committee – The Remediation of Dangerous Cladding – revealed that as many as 7,000 buildings still haven’t been identified and work has […] Click here to view original…

Construction and Engineering 4 min read Read more | Overview The Scottish Government has published plans to intensify the rate of cladding remediation in Scotland, with an acknowledgment that the pace so far has been too slow. The plan of action, which was published on 25 March, establishes a […] Click here to view original…

Watch more of our videos on ShotsTV.com and on Freeview 262 or Freely 565 Visit Shots! now Residents of an apartment complex in Chesterfield town centre said they were not properly consulted by their property management company. A planning application to proposing changes to cladding at Piccadilly Heights apartments […] Click here to view original…

Eight years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy, which claimed 72 lives, tens of thousands of people remain in unsafe homes, with remediation efforts slow and riddled with uncertainty, according to the new report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. The Committee says the Ministry for Housing, Communities […] Click here to view original…

A sprawling development site in east London Social housing providers are warning their ability to build new affordable and social rent homes is plummeting, thanks to the soaring costs of the post-Grenfell Tower cladding crisis. Some 72 people were killed in the 2017 tragedy , but eight years on, […] Click here to view original…

Housing associations say the money to fix cladding ultimately has to come out of their development budget Councils and low-cost housing providers say they could build more than 90,000 additional affordable homes over a decade if ministers included them in two multibillion-pound cladding funding schemes. The National Housing Federation […] Click here to view original…

Reuters A general view of a high-rise public housing building with new cladding applied to its exterior, in the Chalcots Estate in the Swiss Cottage area of north central London within the Camden Borough, Britain November 8, 2024 Ministers have delayed a tax to fund the removal of unsafe […] Click here to view original…

The error happened while work was being done to replace cladding Residents of two tower blocks in north London have described their shock after discovering replacement window panes had been installed inside out. People living on the Chalcots Estate in Swiss Cottage have endured years of building work to […] Click here to view original…

People with concerns about unsafe cladding in their properties can apply to a £10 million fund to have their building assessed. The funding will be available to owners to have relevant buildings assessed, regardless of whether the property is privately owned or social housing. A further extension of this […] Click here to view original…

Eight years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy, which claimed 72 lives, tens of thousands of people remain in unsafe homes, with remediation efforts slow and riddled with uncertainty, according to the new report from the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee. Covered up Grenfell Tower building The Committee says […] Click here to view original…