Cladding

The Paramount building in Swindon town centre (Image: Newsquest) A town centre building remains covered in scaffolding as workers remove potentially deadly cladding. The sight of the Paramount building which houses a now-closed former Kiss Gym and a number of flats being wrapped up in scaffolding as been a […] Click here to view original…

Work is under way to replace unsafe building materials in six apartment blocks in Runcorn (Image: Supplied) WORK has commenced to replace unsafe and flammable building material in six different Runcorn apartment blocks. The remediation at The Deck is part of a national programme following the 2017 Grenfell Tower […] Click here to view original…

A COMMUNITY claims they’re being held for ransom after the service charge on their flats TRIPLED to £7,000 a year. Residents at Earls Court, near Kensington, London have been living in fear after being told the cladding on their homes was dodgy and highly flammable. Dad-of-three Hamid Elouahabi said […] Click here to view original…

‘Imagine the price for replacing not just cladding but double glazing, sprinkler systems, air conditioning and lifts.’ Chatham Place, Reading. y first phone was a Nokia 3210, a cute grey brick with just enough computing power to run Snake. Compared with today’s sleek 5G touchscreen devices it was pretty […] Click here to view original…

Hamid Elouahabi thought the figure was a typo at first (Picture: W8media) People living in a London block of flats have been told they must pay an extra £5,000 a year for their service charge due to flammable cladding. They say it is bad enough to be living in […] Click here to view original…

Since Grenfell more than 15,000 people have been ordered to leave their unsafe homes. Many are living half-lives in hostels — and still paying the mortgage Fozia Malik and the family of Jesse Mikkelsen, five, are among those made homeless while they wait for their homes to be fixed. […] Click here to view original…

Stacey Greenfield has not been able to sell her flat due to cladding issues (photo: supplied) When Stacey Greenfield bought her home in April 2017 -a spacious two-bedroom flat in a new development in Borehamwood in Hertfordshire she didn’t imagine that, seven years later, she’d be asking her solicitor […] Click here to view original…

A wide range of businesses have secured a place on a major eight-figure framework aimed at safeguarding social housing and public buildings and their occupiers. This follows a competitive process conducted by the Scottish Procurement Alliance (SPA) to invite a pool of businesses to tender for a place on […] Click here to view original…

Stacey Greenfield has not been able to sell her flat due to cladding issues (photo: supplied) When Stacey Greenfield bought her home in April 2017 -a spacious two-bedroom flat in a new development in Borehamwood in Hertfordshire she didn’t imagine that, seven years later, she’d be asking her solicitor […] Click here to view original…

Stacey Greenfield has not been able to sell her flat due to cladding issues (photo: supplied) When Stacey Greenfield bought her home in April 2017 -a spacious two-bedroom flat in a new development in Borehamwood in Hertfordshire she didn’t imagine that, seven years later, she’d be asking her solicitor […] Click here to view original…