Cladding

Residents of Dane House in Sydenham face insurance bills of £1k per year due to fire safety fears over cladding on the building 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. […] Click here to view original…

A nine-storey block of luxury apartments overlooking Castle Park will have to be stripped back and all its insulation and brickwork replaced because surveys have found flammable cladding was used when it was built. Castle Wharf is in a prominent position on the corner of Finzel’s Reach and part […] Click here to view original…

Michael Gove’s admission of failures is welcome, but leaseholders need certainty they won’t be on the hook for any fire defects ‘Michael Gove’s admission that lax regulations were partly to blame for Grenfell was a welcome shift in tone.’ For those who bought flats in tower blocks built with […] Click here to view original…

1 hour The cladding defects claims continue. Report by Natalie Cane and Zeba Khan from the Construction & Engineering Team at law firm Irwin Mitchell. The Technology & Construction Court On 23rd December 2022, the Technology & Construction Court (TCC) released its most recent judgment in relation to cladding […] Click here to view original…

Minister for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove leaving Downing Street Michael Gove, the levelling up secretary, is closing in on a multibillion pound deal with Britain’s biggest housebuilders to help resolve the national cladding crisis exposed by the 2017 Grenfell Tower disaster. Sky News has learnt that […] Click here to view original…

Owners of flats in high-rise buildings that have unsafe cladding may be able to more easily sell or remortgage their homes, thanks to a shift in lending policy at six major banks. Barclays, HSBC, Lloyds Banking Group, Nationwide, NatWest and Santander have each committed to consider mortgage applications on […] Click here to view original…

Nova House in Slough had major issues with its fire cladding Money invested into making a Berkshire building safe following concerns over the use of Grenfell-style cladding is set to be recovered. is set to claw back the majority, if not all of the costs, a meeting has heard […] Click here to view original…

The remains of Grenfell Tower beyond residential housing. Photographer: Hollie Adams/Bloomberg Builders in the UK will have six weeks to sign a government contract committing them to pay for upgrades of cladding in houses and apartment blocks, cabinet minister Michael Gove said. Hundreds of thousands of people in the […] Click here to view original…

Steven Bartlett became involved with people in the Grenfell Tower area after meeting some of those involved with Grenfell Athletic, the football team founded after the fire. Steven Bartlett, the multimillionaire Dragons’ Den investor, is planning a “money school” for the Grenfell Tower community to advise potential entrepreneurs. The […] Click here to view original…

Major developers have little more than five weeks to agree to a cladding remediation contract, or face being frozen out of the housing market. The government has issued the ultimatum in an effort to offer greater security to thousands of innocent leaseholders still living in high-rise flats with unsafe […] Click here to view original…