Cladding

Vivid has applied to Portsmouth City Council for planning permission for the work to 6 Portsmouth Road, which has a ground floor Anytime Fitness gym below seven storeys of flats. The scheme will see the building’s combustible cladding and balcony decking replaced with a non-combustible alternative to meet the […] Click here to view original…

More than 900 people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire have settled civil claims related to the 2017 blaze. Families of those affected by the Grenfell Tower fire have settled a civil claim against building firms involved in the tower’s construction. More than 900 survivors, bereaved families and locals […] Click here to view original…

Workmen removing cladding from a block of apartments in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy. We urgently need to sell, but our block is exempt from the government scheme I am one of many residents caught up in the cladding scandal in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. […] Click here to view original…

Following a stern letter to insulation manufacturer Kingspan, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing, and Communities, Michael Gove has now written to the products firm Arconic demanding it to pay for fire safety defects at dangerous high-rise buildings. The manufacturing company supplied the aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding […] Click here to view original…

Image source, PA Media Firms exposed by Michael Gove for failing to sign a contract to repair post-Grenfell safety risks have joined the scheme. The housing secretary gave companies until 13 March to sign the agreement aimed at addressing cladding issues exposed by the Grenfell Tower fire. Mr Gove […] Click here to view original…

Housing secretary fires off letter to another products firm involved in 2017 tragedy Michael Gove has turned his guns on products firm Arconic as he continues to ramp up the pressure on manufacturers to put their hands in their pockets and help pay for cladding remediation work in the […] Click here to view original…

Communities Secretary Michael Gove at BBC Broadcasting House in London (Stefan Rousseau/PA) The coalition government’s public spending squeeze contributed to the neglect faced by social housing tenants, Michael Gove has suggested. The Communities Secretary admitted the mistakes of successive governments had led to tragedies such as the Grenfell Tower […] Click here to view original…

MICHAEL GOVE – the Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities – has written stern letters to Timothy Myers (CEO at Arconic) and Eugene Murtagh (founder and chair of the Kingspan Group), urging both businesses to contribute towards the funding of cladding-related building remediation work or otherwise […] Click here to view original…

Awaab Ishak The coalition government’s public spending squeeze contributed to the neglect faced by social housing tenants, Communities Secretary Michael Gove has suggested. Mr Gove admitted the mistakes of successive governments had led to tragedies such as the death of toddler Awaab Ishak in 2020, caused by mould in […] Click here to view original…

Michael Gove is demanding action over buildings such as Vista Tower in Stevenage Britain’s largest rail unions were accused by ministers of “failing to stand up to injustice” and ignoring calls to help fix a series of “life-critical” fire risks to leaseholders living in buildings owned by their members’ […] Click here to view original…