Cladding

Opinion The Housing Secretary said building regulations were “faulty and ambiguous” before the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire Gove gave house builders a six week deadline to sign legal contracts which will require them to fix fire safety defects. (Photo: REUTERS/Phil Noble) Housing Secretary Michael Gove had a busy weekend. […] Click here to view original…

Residents of a block that had Grenfell-style cladding installed at the time of a major fire in 2021 have called on the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to gain more powers to investigate potential crimes, after it announced there was insufficient evidence to support a prosecution. The fire took place […] Click here to view original…

Chalcots Estate in Camden. PICTURE: Julian Osley, Geograph Wates questioned the scope of post-Grenfell safety remediation work on Camden Council’s Chalcots Estate before the firm was removed from the job, Construction News can reveal. Documents disclosed to CN show that more than a year before the contractor was taken […] 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 Technology and Construction Court makes another [landmark] decision in the case against defective cladding. The judgment in the case of LDC (Portfolio One) Ltd v George Downing Construction Ltd and another [2022] EWHC 3356 (TCC) is the second in cladding related claims. This case concerns fire safety (and […] 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…

Residents of a block that had Grenfell-style cladding installed at the time of a major fire in 2021 have called on the London Fire Brigade (LFB) to gain more powers to investigate potential crimes, after it announced there was insufficient evidence to support a prosecution. The fire took place […] Click here to view original…

Labour or the Greens could secure a majority in the council chamber with a victory here, as voters prepare to head to the polls on 2 February. The seat’s been held by the Lib Dems since its creation in 2016, but a win for either the Labour or the […] Click here to view original…

Grenfell Tower will be demolished following a report issued by engineering consultancy Atkins. Image: ChiralJon/Flickr (CC BY 2.0) England’s housing developers have been given an ultimatum – commit to repairing unsafe buildings or be banned from operating in the market. Developers now have six weeks to sign a government […] Click here to view original…

A number of major UK banks will start considering mortgage applications for flats with dangerous cladding. Banks had previously not considered applications for flats with cladding issues following the Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017 which resulted in the deaths of 72 people. Barclays, Nationwide, NatWest, HSBC, and Santander have […] Click here to view original…