Cladding

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…

Sprinklers will be fitted in all 62 Bristol City Council tower blocks and dangerous cladding removed as part of £97million of fire safety measures, it has been revealed. The massive investment in the authority’s budget to make high-rise homes safe over the next 10 years is almost five times […] 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…

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…

The Green Party’s one MP, Caroline Lucas, is due to visit Bristol on Thursday to support Patrick McAllister in the Hotwells & Harbourside by-election. It comes as the Lib Dem candidate for the ward, Stephen Williams, has accused the Greens of a smear campaign and employing “desperate tactics” as […] Click here to view original…

Jupiter Apartments in Ryland Street, Ladywood Cladding safety work is set to begin at a city apartment block where a first-time buyer reported being close to bankruptcy. Contractor Willmott Dixon is set to carry out an £8.8m project at Ladywood’s Jupiter Apartments . In 2021, mum Jessica Jairath told […] Click here to view original…

Cladding safety work is set to begin at a city apartment block where a first-time buyer reported being close to bankruptcy. Contractor Willmott Dixon is set to carry out an £8.8m project at Ladywood’s Jupiter Apartments . In 2021, mum Jessica Jairath told how she was “living on the […] Click here to view original…

Cladding safety work is set to begin at a city apartment block where a first-time buyer reported being close to bankruptcy. Contractor Willmott Dixon is set to carry out an £8.8m project at Ladywood’s Jupiter Apartments . In 2021, mum Jessica Jairath told how she was “living on the […] Click here to view original…

Cllr Meric Apak. Photo: Camden Council. Rents for thousands of council tenants in Camden are set to go up by seven per cent, after senior councillors approved the housing budget at a meeting this month. Camden Council will put the rents up in April to help boost the income […] 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…