General Insurance Article – Fire Safety Reinsurance Facility finalised

Reinsurance support is now in place to launch the Fire Safety Reinsurance Facility (the Facility) from 1 April 2024, in an industry intervention to help improve the availability of insurance for certain buildings with combustible cladding and other fire safety issues. The Facility has been established by (re)insurance broker […] Click here to view original…

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Cardiff set to approve £25m re-cladding project

3 hours Cardiff Council is preparing to move on to phase two of its post Grenfell tower block remediation works. Nelson House, Butetown [Seth Whales/Creative Commons] Plans for a £25m investment in two blocks of flats in the Butetown are of the city are in the pipeline as part […] Click here to view original…

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Cladding law changes ‘too slow’ – campaigners

Image caption, The owners of Skyline Chambers in Manchester were taken to a tribunal by the government under the Building Safety Act. Phil McCann BBC News, Manchester Published13 March 2024 Owners of flats in buildings with unsafe cladding and safety defects say they still face “life-changing costs” despite a […] Click here to view original…

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Greenwich Premier Inn applies to have combustible cladding removed

The Premier Inn hotel on Greenwich High Road (Credit: Google Earth) A hotel in Greenwich has sent plans to remove combustible cladding from its building following assessments made after the Grenfell Tower fire. Premier Inn on Greenwich High Road has sent an application to the council to have combustible […] Click here to view original…

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Cladding law changes ‘too slow’ – campaigners

Image caption, The owners of Skyline Chambers in Manchester were taken to a tribunal by the government under the Building Safety Act. Phil McCann BBC News, Manchester Published13 March 2024, 10:50 GMT Owners of flats in buildings with unsafe cladding and safety defects say they still face “life-changing costs” […] Click here to view original…

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Flat owners saved from massive insurance bills that soared after Grenfell

Flat owners in buildings affected by Grenfell-style cladding will see their insurance premiums fall as a result of a new industry scheme to tackle eye-watering bills. The Fire Safety Reinsurance Facility will reduce costs for individual flat owners – saving some thousands of pounds a year. Leaseholders in flats […] Click here to view original…

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Initiative launched to improve insurance cover for fire safety risk buildings

The Fire Safety Reinsurance Facility aims to help increase insurance market competition to cover properties affected by combustible cladding and other fire safety problems A new scheme hopes to improve the availability of insurance for higher-risk buildings awaiting work to fix fire safety issues ( Image: PA Archive/PA Images) […] Click here to view original…

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Lives at risk because of ‘snail-pace progress’ on cladding, ministers warned

Opposition MSPs wanred lives are being put at risk because of the Scottish Government is responding at ‘snail-pace’ to concerns about cladding raised in the wake of the Grenfell tower block tragedy. (Victoria Jones/PA). Opposition MSPs have hit out at the Scottish Government over “delays” in tackling with potentially […] Click here to view original…

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Scottish government ‘asleep at the wheel’ on post-Grenfell safety

Scotland’s First Minister Humza Yousaf at the Lord Roberts Monument in Kelvingrove Park, Glasgow, to call on people across Scotland to vote SNP to Exit Brexit, February 26, 2024 × SCOTTISH LABOUR housing spokesman Mark Griffin took aim at the Scottish government yesterday for its lack of urgency in […] Click here to view original…

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