Cladding

Fire chiefs have served enforcement notices on the council after a recent inspection of five high-rise blocks in Brighton and Hove. East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service (ESFRS) said that fire safety work was required to be completed by dates ranging from the end of this month to September […] Click here to view original…

Image: Yau Ming Low / Shutterstock.com. Newham LBC has become the first council in Britain to successfully prosecute a building owner for failing to remove flammable cladding. In a verdict delivered yesterday, deputy chief magistrate at City of London Magistrates Court Tan Ikram, ruled against Chaplair Ltd for failing […] Click here to view original…

Leaseholders in Streatham Hill, London, have successfully obtained the first recorded remediation order under the Building Safety Act (BSA) 2022. A group of leaseholders at 2-4 Leigham Court Road successfully obtained a remediation order against their landlord for defective external cladding and other safety issues. According to legal company […] Click here to view original…

Crown Heights residents able to open windows by ‘up to’ 10cm during cladding work (Image: Newsquest) RESIDENTS in a Basingstoke apartment block will be able to open their windows during work to remove potentially dangerous cladding by ‘up to’ 10cm, it has now been said. As previously reported, residents […] Click here to view original…

Crown Heights residents able to open windows by ‘up to’ 10cm during cladding work (Image: Newsquest) RESIDENTS in a Basingstoke apartment block will be able to open their windows during work to remove potentially dangerous cladding by ‘up to’ 10cm, it has now been said. As previously reported, residents […] Click here to view original…

It seems barely a day goes by without there being a story in the news about some building-related defect, at the moment its RAACS and the ensuing raft of building closures. Not so long ago it was cladding. You will no doubt remember the Grenfell Fire Tragedy and the […] Click here to view original…

Matthew Harris, with his daughter Ella, received a £100,000 cladding bill After three years in limbo, Caroline Stimpson, 39, celebrated the end of her cladding ordeal with a family dinner. She had finally sold her flat. “The weight only lifted when I met the buyer at the property and […] Click here to view original…

Crown Heights residents unable to open windows for 14 months during cladding removal (Image: Newsquest) RESIDENTS in an apartment block in Basingstoke will not be able to open their windows for 14 months and will lose the use of an outside children’s play area while work is carried out […] Click here to view original…

Crown Heights residents unable to open windows for 14 months during cladding removal (Image: Newsquest) RESIDENTS in an apartment block in Basingstoke will not be able to open their windows for 14 months and will lose the use of an outside children’s play area while work is carried out […] Click here to view original…

About our UK Cladding Scandal news 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 […] Click here to view original…