Block residents ‘horrified’ by £29k insurance bill

Image caption, Rachel Clayton said she was “shocked” when the bill dropped through the door Robby West BBC News, Norfolk Published26 June 2024 Leaseholders in a block of flats with unsafe cladding say they are shocked after being left with a £29,000 bill to insure the building. Issues with […] Click here to view original…

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Block residents ‘horrified’ by £29k insurance bill

Rachel Clayton said she was “shocked” when the bill dropped through the door [BBC] Leaseholders in a block of flats with unsafe cladding say they are shocked after being left with a £29,000 bill to insure the building. Issues with the cladding mean that traditional insurers will not cover […] Click here to view original…

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Hamish Paterson: New cladding legislation is positive progress for fire safety

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…

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Block residents ‘horrified’ by £29k insurance bill

Rachel Clayton said she was “shocked” when the bill dropped through the door [BBC] Leaseholders in a block of flats with unsafe cladding say they are shocked after being left with a £29,000 bill to insure the building. Issues with the cladding mean that traditional insurers will not cover […] Click here to view original…

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Only a quarter of tall buildings with unsafe cladding have completed remediation

Latest official figures reveal scale of work still to be done to make high rise housing blocks safe Only one in four high rise residential buildings found to contain unsafe cladding have had their remediation works completed seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire. The latest government figures show […] Click here to view original…

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One in four dangerous cladding buildings remediated

A quarter of all the cladding remediation projects in England have been completed, seven years after the Grenfell Tower tragedy. Of the 4,374 buildings identified in England with dangerous cladding by the end of May 2024, 1,088 have been remediated to completion, according to government statistics published yesterday. Buildings […] Click here to view original…

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Over 1000 building safety cladding retrofits completed

The industry has just completed a quarter of the total building safety cladding retrofits needed to comply with new regulations brought in after the Grenfell disaster. Remediation works to tall building start to gain pace after slow start Latest Government figures show contractors have now reclad 1,088 (25%) of […] Click here to view original…

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