Cladding

MORE than 5,000 high-rises across Scotland are covered in deadly Grenfell Tower-style cladding, it has been revealed. Homes , schools , hospitals and firms are coated in panelling putting 25,000 at risk. Sign up for Scottish Sun newsletter Your info will be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy […] Click here to view original…

ILLUSTRATION BY HAYLEY DALRYMPLE With its imposing art deco design, The Eagle development in Hackney, east London, was heralded as an “outstanding” 27-storey building that “has certainly benefited the whole community” by Jules Pipe, Sadiq Khan’s deputy mayor for planning and the fire service. Yet the reality for those […] Click here to view original…

Flammable cladding has been replaced on just one high-rise housing block out of 5,500 in Scotland, seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire. The Aurora Apartments in Aberdeen is the only building to have had dangerous cladding taken off under the government scheme (picture: Diamond & Company) Sharelines Flammable […] Click here to view original…

Mary Isokariari, from left, Germana Bacchini and her husband, and Sahand Mozafari have been waiting years for their buildings to be made fire safe Steve Day lives in a London apartment block lined with £16.7m worth of flammable claddin g. He believes it is so dangerous his building could […] Click here to view original…

Anthony Marley On the back of the recent announcement by the Scottish Government to cut £700,000 from the cladding remediation programme set up by the Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) Act 2024, Anamore director Anthony Marley expresses his disappointment and caution at the decision. In recent years, cladding remediation and […] Click here to view original…

A tube train passes the remains of Grenfell Tower (Image: Ruth Wishart) ELEVEN blocks across Bournemouth , Christchurch and Poole are being investigated for fire safety matters associated with cladding, it has been revealed. Inquiry findings into the 2017 Grenfell Tower blaze which claimed the lives of 72 people […] Click here to view original…

Bellway first bid to take over the Surrey-headquartered developer in June, making an all-share offer valuing the company at £667 – 253p per share London-listed housebuilder Bellway has reportedly cited fears of Crest Nicholson’s costs to fix hazardous cladding as part of reasoning for pulling out of its £720m […] Click here to view original…

Runcorn MP Mike Amesbury with residents of The Deck (Image: Mike Amesbury MP) RESIDENTS at a Runcorn apartment complex face more delays over the replacement of flammable building materials. Remediation at The Deck is part of a national programme following the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, involving combustible cladding, that […] Click here to view original…

Up to 7,000 buildings that require remediation have not yet applied for the government’s cladding safety scheme, the building safety minister has said. Building safety minister Rushanara Ali: “Counting the buildings we know about is not enough” (picture: BBC Parliament) Sharelines Up to 7,000 unsafe buildings have not applied […] Click here to view original…

Residents at a block of flats which failed fire safety assessments said they want to speak out about the risks “before it’s too late”. Jamie Gunn has lived in Sheffield Court in Brighton’s City Point for 15 years. The development failed fire safety checks in 2021 in the wake […] Click here to view original…