Cladding

The Chalcots estate CHALCOTS tenants are being told to wear noise-cancelling headphones to cope with a new six-week programme of “very noisy work”. Letters to people living in the tower block estate in Adelaide Road, Belsize Park, warn of “the breaking of concrete and drilling into the floor and […] Click here to view original…

Slough Borough Council A DEBT-RIDDEN council won’t be borrowing this year despite increased costs to replace Grenfell-like cladding at two apartment blocks. Finance chiefs from Slough Borough Council (SBC) have said there will be no external loans to fund its down-scaled five-year capital programme, which has a budget to […] Click here to view original…

Banks are willing to lend on flats with dangerous cladding for the first time since the crisis snowballed. Does this mark the beginning of the end of the building safety crisis or another false dawn? Peter Apps explains Picture: Hiran Perera Sharelines Banks are willing to lend on flats […] Click here to view original…

Michael Gove’s action against developers hasn’t stopped them from contesting the scope of the repairs needed — meanwhile, leaseholders are taking matters into their own hands Laura Cusack, right, and neighbour Gemma Anglesea So desperate was Laura Cusack to get rid of the flammable cladding around her one-bedroom flat […] Click here to view original…

Slough Borough Council A DEBT-RIDDEN council won’t be borrowing this year despite increased costs to replace Grenfell-like cladding at two apartment blocks. Finance chiefs from Slough Borough Council (SBC) have said there will be no external loans to fund its down-scaled five-year capital programme, which has a budget to […] Click here to view original…

Dane House is on the Exeter Place development in Sydenham. CREDIT: Robert Firth South London families are having to fork out £1,000 per year on insurance for their homes because of fears cladding on their apartment block is dangerous. Residents of Dane House in Sydenham are paying £23,000 between […] Click here to view original…

The development in Southside is a stone’s throw away from the hugely ambitious Smithfield project site A Birmingham leaseholder says he is losing sleep over a developer’s refusal to repair hazardous cladding on his city centre apartments. Steve Gregory, 64, is one of many apartment owners left in limbo […] Click here to view original…

What tends to get lost in the debates around cladding is the fact that this crisis originates from a failure to properly regulate. The building regulations that are in operation, the building control system, permitted development that was intrinsically unsafe… and there were enough warnings through enough fires for […] Click here to view original…

Major banks have committed to lending on properties with potentially dangerous cladding so long as a remediation plan is in place, after new guidance came into force yesterday. Picture: Getty Sharelines Six of the UK’s biggest banks have now updated their policies following new guidance published last month by […] Click here to view original…

Cllr Ian Ward was recently accused of ‘brushing off’ calls for a more robust stance on Lendlease Council leader Ian Ward has again rejected calls for a ban on developers refusing to fix flammable cladding on their older buildings. Cllr Ward said boycotting property giants such as Lendlease, the […] Click here to view original…