Cladding

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 fire, and the death of toddler Awaab Ishak in 2020 caused by […] Click here to view original…

Dangerous cladding has been a national issue since the Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people died Michael Gove has launched an stinging attack on one of the country’s biggest pension funds, accusing it of failing to fix “life-critical” fire risks at ten buildings it owns with dangerous cladding. […] Click here to view original…

Dangerous cladding has been a national issue since the Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people died Michael Gove has launched an stinging attack on one of the country’s biggest pension funds, accusing it of failing to fix “life-critical” fire risks at ten buildings it owns with dangerous cladding. […] Click here to view original…

Dangerous cladding has been a national issue since the Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people died Michael Gove has launched an stinging attack on one of the country’s biggest pension funds, accusing it of failing to fix “life-critical” fire risks at ten buildings it owns with dangerous cladding. […] Click here to view original…

The firm had previously said Michael Gove had given a “misleading” impression of its behaviour The Emerson Group has signed the government’s cladding contract, leaving only four firms out of the 11 that missed the government’s original deadline yet to commit. Yesterday just after 3.30pm the government confirmed Emerson […] Click here to view original…

A building in east London with its cladding removed. Photo: Google Maps Nearly six years after 72 lives were lost in the Grenfell Tower fire, MPs have set out a list of ongoing concerns about the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities’ approach to the building-safety crisis that […] Click here to view original…

Dangerous cladding has been a national issue since the Grenfell Tower fire in which 72 people died Michael Gove has launched an stinging attack on one of the country’s biggest pension funds, accusing it of failing to fix “life-critical” fire risks at ten buildings it owns with dangerous cladding. […] 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…

Ron Alalouff reports on the chaos surrounding a residential block with a range of complex fire safety defects. A residential block in Ipswich poses such serious risk to residents that they were abruptly told to vacate the building after two prohibition notices in the space of four months were […] Click here to view original…

Work to remove cladding at Basingstoke high rise to get underway WORK to remove potentially dangerous cladding on blocks of flats in Basingstoke will finally start this year – nearly six years after the Grenfell Fire tragedy. The external cladding at Crown Heights, which has around 250 flats, contains […] Click here to view original…