Cladding

Support us and go ad-free Hero firefighters who fought the 2017 Grenfell Tower blaze are being diagnosed with cancers and leukaemia at a startling rate. An investigation found that over a dozen of the firefighters involved may face untreatable illnesses, including digestive cancers. 72 people died in the west […] 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…

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…

The new Fire Safety (England) Regulations come into force on January 23 to meet the Grenfell Tower Inquiry’s Phase 1 recommendations. The fire which destroyed Grenfell Tower in June 2017 killed 72 people. In the public inquiry it was revealed the material in the cladding on the outside of […] Click here to view original…

Cladding campaigners have described the change as a step forward but there are caveats, ITV News’ s ocial affairs correspondent Sarah Corker reports Nearly six years since the Grenfell Tower fire, thousands of people living in flats with dangerous cladding could finally be able to sell or re-mortgage their […] Click here to view original…

Leaseholders of high-rise property can face lack of transparency over insurance and other service charges (Photo: Ac Manley | Dreamstime.com ) A win for leaseholders on overcharging could bring relief to high-rise home owners caught up in the building safety crisis following the Grenfell tragedy. Leaseholders at Canary Riverside […] Click here to view original…

The Grenfell Fire inquiry found that every death during the fire could have been avoided had cladding not been there. (Photo by Hollie Adams/Getty Images) The tragedy at Grenfell left a scar on our housing sector. Michael Gove did a lot last year to make developers and builders accountable […] Click here to view original…

The tragedy at Grenfell left a scar on our housing sector. Michael Gove did a lot last year to make developers and builders accountable for their errors through the Building Safety Act, but nuance will be needed too, writes Elena Siniscalco Every death in the blaze at Grenfell Tower […] Click here to view original…

Plastic sheeting was put on a block of flats on Patteson Road in Ipswich in October 6 hours ago 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…

Plastic sheeting was put on a block of flats on Patteson Road in Ipswich in October 50 minutes ago 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…