Cladding

WhenFresh has launched a dataset providing property-level cladding details on the UK’s tall residential buildings, which are valued at over £50bn. The financial data firm says its software has data on each of the 485,234 properties in multi-unit dwellings, of 18 metres or more in height, throughout the country. […] Click here to view original…

WhenFresh has launched a dataset providing property-level cladding details on the UK’s tall residential buildings, which are valued at over £50bn. The financial data firm says its software has data on each of the 485,234 properties in multi-unit dwellings, of 18 metres or more in height, throughout the country. […] Click here to view original…

The top three floors were evacuated in November Residents of an apartment block in Ipswich say they’ve been asked to leave because of fire safety concerns. Campaign group Ipswich Cladiators tweeted yesterday afternoon saying it was the news residents of Cardinal Lofts had all been dreading: This comes following […] Click here to view original…

The building’s management company said hotel accommodation and meals were organised for evacuated residents A nine-storey apartment block is being evacuated because of fire safety concerns. The top three floors of Cardinal Lofts in Ipswich were evacuated in November after a fire service report deemed them unsafe. All remaining […] Click here to view original…

A major assessment of ‘unsafe, unfinished and empty’ property developments within Old Trafford is to be undertaken by Trafford Council. The council has said it will consider taking possible enforcement action in a bid to address serious issues at seven developments within Clifford and Longford. The developments, which have […] Click here to view original…

The incomplete development and sub-standard construction of the Trafford Press building on Chester Road will be assessed by Trafford Council A major assessment of ‘unsafe, unfinished and empty’ property developments within is to be undertaken by Trafford Council. The council has said it will consider taking possible enforcement action […] Click here to view original…

Government inaction continues to cost leaseholders dear, says Lynne Hamshaw , whose daughter’s building insurance premium has gone up by 1,000% ‘The government has failed leaseholders at every turn and, despite Michael Gove’s rhetoric, continues to do so.’ Thank you so much for your editorial on the seemingly forgotten […] Click here to view original…

Work to remove dangerous cladding from Addlestone One has stopped. Runnymede Borough Council issued a tender worth between £2 million and £3 million to remove cladding from its flagship Addlestone One housing development but that work, which began in January, has been put on hold after it emerged the […] Click here to view original…

Celestia in Cardiff does not live up to its heavenly name … The Welsh Government has dithered over building safety remediation even more pathetically than the UK one, throwing in the catch-all excuse of devolved powers. Celestia’s developer Redrow has signed up to the Welsh Government’s “Pact”, but Laing […] Click here to view original…

Harrington joined Intelligent FS as Chairman and Director last November. He was construction minister from June 2017 to March 2019. Intelligent FS was set-up in 2016 but is expanding rapidly after winning a £31m government contract to help tackle the post-Grenfell cladding crisis. The business has major re-cladding contracts […] Click here to view original…