Cladding

Four confirmed dead and 19 missing after fire tore through flats in Valencia. Picture: Getty Four people have died and dozens are missing after a fire tore through an apartment block in Spain. Listen to this article Loading audio… Firefighters rushed to the scene of the fire in Valencia, […] Click here to view original…

HARROWING videos show the speed at which a deadly inferno engulfed a Valencia apartment block in just 14 minutes. The terrifying footage captured the moment the vicious fire first broke out before the lightning-fast blaze ripped through the flammable cladding , spiralling into a massive inferno. At 5.37pm, a […] Click here to view original…

The towers burning yesterday evening in the Nou Campanar neighbourhood of Valencia (Image via the X account of Spain’s Policía Nacional) At least four people were killed and between nine and 15 are missing after fire engulfed a high-rise apartment complex in the southern Spanish city of Valencia. A […] Click here to view original…

HEROIC firefighters used cherry pickers to rescue a desperate couple from their balcony during the horror fire at an apartment complex in Valencia. The terrified pair were trapped on their seventh-floor balcony for over two hours before they were saved from the inferno which killed at least four . […] Click here to view original…

Lisa Mannion Lisa Mannion, an associate in the Residential Property division of Thorntons, outlines Scotland’s new cladding regulations. New legislation to help tackle unsafe property cladding has been introduced by the Scottish Parliament and is expected to become law within the next few months. The Housing (Cladding Remediation) (Scotland) […] Click here to view original…

Latest news on the UK cladding scandal, a social crisis that affects thousands of UK residents who live in buildings that have been clad in dangerously combustible materials, which pose a high risk of fire spread. The scandal was exposed by the Grenfell Tower fire of 2017 and the […] Click here to view original…

Image caption, The fire broke out on Monday 29 January By Frankie McCamley News Correspondent Residents say they feel left in the dark over how long repairs will take to their fire-hit block of flats. A blaze broke out at Elm Road, Wembley, on 29 January. Cladding was involved, […] Click here to view original…

Image caption, The fire broke out on Monday 29 January By Frankie McCamley News Correspondent Residents say they feel left in the dark over how long repairs will take to their fire-hit block of flats. A blaze broke out at Elm Road, Wembley, on 29 January. Cladding was involved, […] Click here to view original…

The fire broke out on Monday 29 January Residents say they feel left in the dark over how long repairs will take to their fire-hit block of flats. A blaze broke out at Elm Road, Wembley, on 29 January. Cladding was involved, London Fire Brigade said. Residents say they […] Click here to view original…

David Scott With a consultation now underway about a similar post-Grenfell Building Safety Levy to one introduced to impose a levy on certain new builds in England, Ledingham Chalmers LLP partner David Scott looks at what might happen north of the border. After the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, […] Click here to view original…