Cladding

The top three floors of Cardinal Lofts in Ipswich were evacuated on 15 November Residents forced to leave their waterfront homes due to fire-risk at their tower block have been told they may not be able to return for a year. The top three floors of Cardinal Lofts in […] Click here to view original…

NEW arrangements could be made to fast track the completion of the much-delayed defective cladding replacement of two Poole tower blocks Custom made cladding panels ordered for the residential Sterte Court complex are held up after the materials’ fabricator, H&H Architectural Systems, entered insolvency in mid-October before the final […] Click here to view original…

NEW arrangements could be made to fast track the completion of the much-delayed defective cladding replacement of two Poole tower blocks Custom made cladding panels ordered for the residential Sterte Court complex are held up after the materials’ fabricator, H&H Architectural Systems, entered insolvency in mid-October before the final […] Click here to view original…

Residents in a Sheffield flats building will have to move out next month for the second time in three years because of fire safety fears. South Yorkshire Fire & Rescue (SYFR) said that fire safety inspecting officers have served a prohibition notice on Wicker Riverside because previously identified issues […] Click here to view original…

Fire safety concerns at Wicker Riverside have not been resolved Residents of a block of flats in Sheffield will be forced to move out over fire safety fears for second time in less than three years. South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue (SYFR) has served a prohibition notice on Wicker […] Click here to view original…

Fire safety concerns at Wicker Riverside have not been resolved Residents of a block of flats in Sheffield will be forced to move out over fire safety fears for second time in less than three years. South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue (SYFR) has served a prohibition notice on Wicker […] Click here to view original…

Banks are preparing to unlock mortgage lending for flats with unsafe cladding in “six to 12 weeks” as they expect a breakthrough over the issue of who funds repair work, The Telegraph can reveal. Hundreds of thousands of leaseholders trapped in homes that have effectively become unmortgageable in the […] Click here to view original…

Black mould has inundated this Clayton apartment block. Black mould is being uncovered in the walls of defective apartment blocks, in what experts describe as an “absolute catastrophe”. Workers have laid bare wall cavities riddled with black mould and rotten timber in poorly constructed apartment buildings that have been […] Click here to view original…

Many cladding-hit homeowners will remain trapped in unsellable flats despite new efforts to unblock the mortgage crisis affecting them, campaigners have warned. They described the new guidance to help with the valuation of cladding-hit flats as ‘well-meaning’. But they went on to say that they had ‘serious concerns’ about […] Click here to view original…

A landlord who’s facing bankruptcy has written to Housing Secretary Michael Gove voicing his frustration that he is not eligible for any cladding funding despite only earning £63 a week from his properties. The landlord, who has BTL interest-only mortgages, has two freehold semi-detached houses and three leasehold apartments, […] Click here to view original…