Cladding

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 by property giant Lendlease’s snub of new government building regulations following the Grenfell Tower disaster in […] Click here to view original…

Nova House in Buckingham Garden, Slough AN END to the long-running legal dispute to claw back costs for removing dangerous Grenfell-esque cladding on an apartment block is on the horizon. Slough Borough Council is set to recover “very significant,” if not all, of the costs to make the seven-storey […] Click here to view original…

Plastic sheeting was put on a block of flats on Patteson Road in Ipswich in October 9 January 2023 More needs to be done to protect residents of high-rise buildings that have unsafe cladding, an MP said. After the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, unsafe materials which pose a […] Click here to view original…

Charlotte Meehan, who is still waiting for her flat to be made safe despite receiving an inspection report in June 2021 concluding it was a fire risk. In June 2021, Charlotte Meehan received a safety inspection report for her block of flats as part of the nationwide checks after […] Click here to view original…

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 by property giant Lendlease’s snub of new government building regulations following the Grenfell Tower disaster in […] Click here to view original…

Over the past few years the rules and regulations put in place to keep homeowners in cladded buildings safe have had unintended consequences. Leaseholders have faced issues ranging from being unable to sell or remortgage their homes, through to facing massive bills to employ round the clock fire wardens. […] Click here to view original…

Round-the-clock fire wardens are patrolling the site at Glasgow’s Lancefield Quay following safety concerns. Abhijeet Kadwe owns property at Lancefield Quay in Glasgow. By Sharon Frew , Residents of a Glasgow apartment complex say the Scottish Government and developers need to make their homes safe after delays in replacing […] Click here to view original…

Balfour Beatty is on site at the Swansea Travelodge Balfour Beatty is on site carrying out work on a Travelodge hotel after an £800,000 dispute over alleged combustible cladding and other defects was settled. In 2020, Construction News revealed that Travelodge was suing Balfour over what it said were […] Click here to view original…

Building has cladding removed after Grenfell fire In the wake of the Grenfell tragedy, flammable cladding was removed from flats around the country. As Andrew Kersley discovers, some has yet to be replaced – and as the cost of living crisis escalates, tenants are suffering as a result Rachael […] Click here to view original…

Housing secretary Michael Gove has become the first minister to admit the government’s building regulations were faulty and unclear before the Grenfell Tower fire In interviews over the weekend, Gove said ambiguity in Approved Document B – which sets out how to comply with Part B of the Building […] Click here to view original…