Cladding

It took 50 firefighters to put out the blaze at midnight on 22 August [BBC] A local authority knew that cladding on an area of a building that caught fire last week was similar to that which contributed to the Grenfell Tower disaster. Nearly 300 people were evacuated from […] Click here to view original…

Greenwich leaseholders have found themselves in a dispute with the developer of their homes over the safety of the buildings’ cladding. The issue has left residents with ‘crippling’ service charge bills and fears that they are unable to sell their flats. The concerns follow the seventh anniversary of the […] Click here to view original…

Lucy Tissington says she feels trapped in a home she can’t sell, as Richard Payne reports A woman says she is suffering from anxiety after being told the Bristol flat she lives in is a fire hazard. Lucy Tissington, 34, says she is unable to sell the two-bed property […] Click here to view original…

Fire engines outside Mosaic Apartments on Slough High Street (Image: NQ) Slough Borough Council knew there was flammable cladding on Mosaic Apartments on the High Street around a month before a fire broke out there, the Observer can reveal. In July the government wrote to the authority making it […] Click here to view original…

It took 50 firefighters to put out the blaze at midnight on 22 August [BBC] A local authority knew that cladding on an area of a building that caught fire last week was similar to that which contributed to the Grenfell Tower disaster. Nearly 300 people were evacuated from […] Click here to view original…

Cladding manufacturer Kingspan has settled a court case that would have tested a new law extending the range of legal claims that contractors can make against cladding manufacturers, Construction News can reveal. Kingspan was among 11 companies facing claims totalling £70m from Shepherd Construction in a cladding dispute relating […] Click here to view original…

Deputy Prime Minister and housing secretary Angela Rayner has called for the remediation of unsafe buildings to be completed quickly. These comments came after a fire at a residential tower block in Dagenham, London, this week. The building was undergoing works to remove unsafe cladding on the top two […] Click here to view original…

When a fire in 2023 destroyed four terraced houses Barnet Council brought the housing sector’s attention to an overlooked fire safety issue: the use of uPVC cladding in low-rise homes. Have other councils heeded its warning? Olivia Barber launched a Freedom of Information investigation to find out A photo […] Click here to view original…

Greenwich leaseholders have found themselves in a dispute with the developer of their homes over the safety of the buildings’ cladding. The issue has left residents with ‘crippling’ service charge bills and fears that they are unable to sell their flats. The concerns follow the seventh anniversary of the […] Click here to view original…

BBC The red and grey apartment block has seven floors, with two fire trucks outside and a police car. The seventh and sixth floor been burnt and whole building evacuated. Cladding on an area of a building that caught fire last week was similar to that which contributed to […] Click here to view original…