Cladding

Webb at the Ronan Point tower block in east London, 1986 Sam Webb was vilified, ridiculed and most importantly ignored in 50 years of campaigning to persuade governments to make council tower blocks safer. Talking to the Today programme on the morning after the Grenfell fire in North Kensington, […] Click here to view original…

Residents are trapped living in 38sqm flats in west London until a solution is found to pay for the remediation of various fire safety issues within their block Vivian Zhou has been trapped working from home in her 38sqm apartment since the pandemic started (Photo: Supplied) Families say they […] Click here to view original…

Families say they are trapped living in tiny, “pocket-sized” flats because their developer is not paying to fix fire safety issues with their building brought to light as a result of the cladding crisis . Defects including dangerous cladding, poorly installed fire doors, and missing fire barriers have been […] Click here to view original…

Intelligent FS co-founders Rob Williams (right) and Adam Gallagher (left) A BUSINESSMAN from Wirral was handed a £31million government contract to tackle the UK cladding crisis following the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017. Rob Williams and Adam Gallagher founded Intelligent FS in 2015, a firm which employs a boutique […] Click here to view original…

London’s two major financial districts saw double-digit home price declines even before rising rates threatened to slam the brakes on the property market. House prices in the City of London slumped 17% in the 12 months through June, the biggest of any London borough in the period, according to […] Click here to view original…

A Stevenage tower block’s residents have been slapped with £200,000 cladding bills whilst the owner faces court action. Following the well-known Grenfell tower fire, checks at Stevenage ‘s 14-storey tall Vista Tower found combustible cladding and flammable insulation, which has led to huge repairs being needed to increase safety […] Click here to view original…

A Stevenage tower block’s residents have been slapped with £200,000 cladding bills whilst the owner faces court action. Following the well-known Grenfell tower fire, checks at Stevenage ‘s 14-storey tall Vista Tower found combustible cladding and flammable insulation, which has led to huge repairs being needed to increase safety […] Click here to view original…

Unsafe cladding will be replaced under the deal Ten developers have agreed to fix fire safety failings in all tall buildings they have worked on in Wales, the Welsh government has announced. The “Developers Pact” applies to buildings over 11 metres (36 ft), around four to six storeys high. […] Click here to view original…

The Vista Tower in Stevenage The owner of firetrap flats where residents were hit with £200,000 cladding bills faces official action . Checks after the Grenfell disaster found combustible cladding and flammable insulation at the 14-storey Vista Tower in Stevenage, Herts. Residents in its 73 flats received service charge […] Click here to view original…

The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) has taken the first step in legal action against Grey GR, an organisation ultimately owned by RailPen , as the cladding scandal continues. Grey GR Limited Partnership, the freeholder of Vista Tower , a 15-storey tower block in Stevenage, has […] Click here to view original…