Cladding

Camden Council has invested £7 million, using funding available from the Government’s Building Safety Fund, to replace facades across three buildings with new A1 rated cladding. The council says the Bramber, Glynde Reach and Gatesden buildings are among the first social housing blocks in the country to have had […] Click here to view original…

The acclaimed One Central Park, designed by Jean Nouvel, is in need of urgent repairs, with issues of loose exterior planter boxes and flammable cladding plaguing the multi-residential complex. 2022 saw a planter box fall to the footpath below, with local Council calling for repairs to protect the public […] Click here to view original…

The Building Safety Act provides for leaseholders to be protected from having to pay for remediation of fire safety defects in their blocks, but who is ultimately going to foot the bill? Ron Alalouff examines a number of cases which may point the way. In what is believed to […] Click here to view original…

A resident leaving Barton House after an evacuation was ordered Hundreds have been evacuated from a tower block following a major incident in Bristol. Residents of Barton House were asked to leave immediately on Tuesday night while inspections were carried out. The evacuation was “as a precautionary measure” and […] Click here to view original…

Work to remove dangerous cladding from Basingstoke block delayed again by six months (Image: Newsquest) WORK to remove potentially dangerous cladding from a Basingstoke apartment block has been delayed again and will not start for at least another eight months. Residents at Crown Heights were initially told that work […] Click here to view original…

The Milliners development, Victoria Street Bristol People living in a block of flats in Bristol have been told they will have to move out – because the entire top floor needs to be demolished and rebuilt. Residents of The Milliners building in Redcliffe, which has been one of the […] Click here to view original…

Residents of a six-storey block of flats have been told the top floor could be completely demolished and rebuilt due to safety issues. People living in The Milliners in Redcliffe have received a letter stating part of the building was not built to the required building regulations. Homeowners of […] Click here to view original…

Weaver Vale MP Mike Amesbury with residents of The Decks in Runcorn (Image: Mike Amesbury MP) THE shadow building safety minister has criticised a developer over delays in the replacement of flammable cladding at a Cheshire apartment complex. Taylor Wimpey had told Mike Amesbury MP work on the six […] Click here to view original…

Basingstoke MP criticised over lost chance to resolve cladding misery for residents (Image: Newsquest) BASINGSTOKE’S MP has been criticised for missing the chance to end the cladding misery for residents of Crown Heights two years ago. Basingstoke Gazette: As previously reported, residents in the high-rise apartment block in the […] Click here to view original…

Eccleston House in Barton Hill, where a terrifying blaze took place in autumn 2022 (credit: David Griffiths) When a fire broke out last year at Eccleston House in Barton Hill, people were trapped in their homes as smoke filled the tower block’s corridors and flames took hold of the […] Click here to view original…