Cladding

Lisa Smith will not let her and her husband sign up to a new fixed-rate deal and no other provider will lend to them, due to the cladding issues (Photo: supplied) A woman who is trapped paying more than £1,800 per month on a variable rate mortgage for a […] Click here to view original…

Lisa Smith is trapped on a variable rate mortgage for a flat she cannot sell due to cladding issues (Photo: Supplied) A woman who is trapped paying over £1,800 per month on a variable rate mortgage for a flat she cannot sell said she and her family are “at […] Click here to view original…

When the cladding was last inspected after the Grenfell incident, it was compliant, however legislation has now changed Cladding on a number of blocks of flats in Northampton has been identified as needing remedial action to make sure it remains compliant. Council-owned high-rise flats were previously assessed in 2018 […] Click here to view original…

2-4 Leigham Court Road in Streatham Hill, London (Image: Google Street View) Last month, a tribunal handed down the first remediation order under the new powers granted by the Building Safety Act 2022 (BSA). Until now, no application for a remediation order had made its way through to a […] Click here to view original…

Crown Heights flats in Basingstoke (Image: Newsquest) BASINGSTOKE and Deane Borough Council has decided to take proactive steps to resolve the issues of residents of Crown Heights apartments who are facing cladding concerns. The external cladding at Crown Heights, which has around 250 flats, contains the flammable material ‘expanded […] Click here to view original…

Crown Heights flats in Basingstoke (Image: Newsquest) BASINGSTOKE and Deane Borough Council has decided to take proactive steps to resolve the issues of residents of Crown Heights apartments who are facing cladding concerns. The external cladding at Crown Heights, which has around 250 flats, contains the flammable material ‘expanded […] Click here to view original…

Levelling up secretary Michael Gove, whose Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities has no plan to pay for remedial work on any unsafe RAAC material used in housing At least one housing estate built using reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (RAAC) is still in use, openDemocracy has discovered, as […] Click here to view original…

Jeremy Hunt has issued a stark warning to the UK government, highlighting the potential multi-billion-pound cost of addressing the building safety crisis that has emerged post-Grenfell. The crisis revolves around the fact that the government’s leaseholder protection legislation, introduced last year in response to the Grenfell fire in 2017, […] Click here to view original…

Buildings at three NHS trusts in England have failed fire safety tests in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster, NHS Improvement has said. Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust is taking steps to remove cladding from one of its buildings following a negative test result. NHS Improvement said the […] Click here to view original…

Exclusive Laws brought in to protect leaseholders following the cladding crisis are unlikely to shield them from the cost of fixing buildings with RAAC Remedial work at Mayflower Primary School in Leicester, which has been affected by RAAC. Now it has emerged homes could be hit too (Photo: Jacob […] Click here to view original…