Cladding

A high-rise apartment block in Aberdeen has become the first in Scotland to have its fire-risk cladding stripped and replaced in the wake of the Grenfell tragedy. Aurora Apartments at 172 Polmuir Road was completed around 2008 but was found to make use of highly flammable cladding following a […] Click here to view original…

Sydney residents are being warned more than 200 local buildings have been identified as potentially containing combustible cladding. A task force was set up after 72 people were killed as fire engulfed London’s Grenfell Tower in 2017. Watch the video above Know the news with the 7NEWS app: Download […] Click here to view original…

Pilot: Cladding at the Aurora Apartments in Ferryhill have been replaced with safer alternatives. A block of flats in Aberdeen has become the first in Scotland to have dangerous cladding removed – seven years after 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower fire. The Aurora Apartments in Ferryhill are […] Click here to view original…

Residents of Gilton House a tower block in Brislington, which has had scaffolding around it for two years, outside City Hall, after asking questions to councillors about their situation Elderly residents living in a block of flats left without cladding for two years could be compensated just £325 for […] Click here to view original…

Scaffolding is seeing around a block of flats in Love Lane in Woolwich south London, Britain 11 July 2024. Facundo Arrizabalaga/MyLondon. Greenwich leaseholders have claimed they are unable to sell their flats due to ‘nightmare’ cladding remediation works on their building. Woolwich Central is a structure in South East […] Click here to view original…

-Credit: (Image: Facundo Arrizabalaga/MyLondon) Greenwich leaseholders have claimed they are unable to sell their flats due to ‘nightmare’ cladding remediation works on their building. Woolwich Central is a structure in South East London comprising a series of seven blocks of flats sitting above a large Tesco Extra store. The […] Click here to view original…

Marisa Abrahams (Legal Director) and Claire Lamkin (Partner) are in the real estate & construction team at law firm Kingsley Napley Whilst the housebuilding side of Angela Rayner’s new role of Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government has garnered headlines in the first week of the […] Click here to view original…

4 hours Irwin Mitchell solicitors Alex Delin and Natalie Cane explain the implications of a recent legal reverse for Redrow in an argument with the government. Redrow’s Hemsiphere apartments in Birmingham [Google Streetview] Redrow has had a judicial review dismissed after it challenged an order to reimburse £30m that […] Click here to view original…

Grenfell Tower was covered in a cladding known as aluminium composite material (ACM) PA Wire The Government was on Friday urged to do more in tackling dangerous cladding seven years on from the Grenfell Tower fire. Tom Copley, the capital’s deputy mayor for housing , warned that leaseholders unable […] Click here to view original…

Hamish Paterson Thomas & Adamson partner Hamish Paterson provides his take on new legislation giving Scottish Ministers powers to assess and remediate buildings which have unsafe cladding. In mid-May, the Scottish Parliament voted unanimously to pass new legislation that will speed up the removal of potentially flammable cladding materials […] Click here to view original…