Cladding

HARLOW Council has completed the purchase of the derelict Occasio House site to enable the delivery of its plans for the regeneration of the Playhouse Quarter. The council completed the £1m purchase last week on the same day it bought the Harvey Shopping Centre. Occasio House has been empty […] Click here to view original…

A Luton couple say their dream first home has become a nightmare – leaving then with a huge bill and a leaking mouldy ceiling. Ann Marie McNally and Aashiq Mortimer bought their flat in Hatton Place in 2018, but only three months later they say cracks started appearing. Problems […] Click here to view original…

Lenders will consider mortgage applications on flats in buildings in England over five storeys (or, 11 metres) from next month, according to a statement from key mortgage lenders and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors released today. The move means that from 9 January lenders have agreed to grant […] Click here to view original…

Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders trapped by the cladding crisis could be able to sell their flats in as little as three weeks as Britain’s biggest lenders announce they will unlock mortgages for affected properties in January. In a statement on Tuesday, a group of major high street lenders […] Click here to view original…

A handful of the country’s biggest banks will consider mortgage applications for some flats with dangerous cladding from January, in a sigh of relief for people trapped in unsellable properties. Lenders withdrew mortgage provisions for unsafe flats following the Grenfell Tower disaster, when 72 people were killed in a […] Click here to view original…

Lenders will consider mortgage applications on flats in buildings in England over five storeys (or, 11 metres) from next month, according to a statement from key mortgage lenders and the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors released today. The move means that from 9 January lenders have agreed to grant […] Click here to view original…

Ae tower block in Salford that had exterior cladding removed in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire. Six of the UK’s largest banks will start lending on medium and high-rise flats with cladding from January, in a move that could help thousands of people stuck in properties they […] Click here to view original…

Hundreds of thousands of homeowners trapped in buildings with cladding may now be able to sell their properties after Britain’s largest mortgage provider scrapped its ban on lending. Lloyds has removed its requirement for blocks of flats that are five floors or taller to have an EWS1 certificate, a […] Click here to view original…

Cladding crisis Hundreds of thousands of homeowners trapped in buildings with cladding may now be able to sell their properties after Britain’s largest mortgage provider scrapped its ban on lending. Lloyds has removed its requirement for blocks of flats that are five floors or taller to have an EWS1 […] Click here to view original…

By Adrian Zorzut, Local Democracy Service Families in a west London tower block say they are living through hell as they have to listen to round-the-clock drilling that sounds like a rock concert. Tenants on the North Kensington estate also claim construction workers peer into their homes and leave […] Click here to view original…