Cladding

Christopher Leebody A new £33 million fund to reduce the fire risks associated with some external wall cladding on certain buildings in Northern Ireland has been welcomed by politicians after it was launched on Monday. The Department for Communities said the fund would help address the risk to life […] Click here to view original…

A £33million scheme has been launched in Northern Ireland to address fire safety risks linked to external wall cladding on residential buildings. The fund, which comes six years after the Grenfell tower fire in London, follows a similar scheme in England. It applies to residential buildings over 11 metres […] Click here to view original…

THE MP for Basingstoke says she is ‘incredibly disappointed’ that work on a block of flats in Basingstoke with dangerous cladding will not go ahead when originally planned. As previously reported, the external cladding at Crown Heights, which has around 250 flats, contains the flammable material ‘expanded polystyrene’ and […] Click here to view original…

Grenfell Tower (Jonathan Brady/PA) DUP MP Gavin Robinson as welcomed progress on a scheme to address cladding safety concerns in Northern Ireland (Liam McBurney/PA) THE DUP have welcomed progress on a cladding safety scheme in Northern Ireland, with hopes it can address problems for nearly 500 apartments in east […] Click here to view original…

A London council has taken the owner of a residential tower to court to argue that the urgent replacement of flammable cladding was unnecessarily delayed. 04 August 2023 Fire Safety Signs & Notices Fire Safety FD&A Fire and Rescue Equipment Fire Risk Assessment In what is believed to be […] Click here to view original…

THE MP for Basingstoke says she is ‘incredibly disappointed’ that work on a block of flats in Basingstoke with dangerous cladding will not go ahead when originally planned. As previously reported, the external cladding at Crown Heights, which has around 250 flats, contains the flammable material ‘expanded polystyrene’ and […] Click here to view original…

Performance analysis Overview This section sets out the department’s performance against its five priority outcomes and its strategic enablers in 2022-23. The significant events and challenges that had an impact on delivery activity and outcomes are also specified where applicable. Delivering in a changing environment Over the last year, […] Click here to view original…

The devastating 2017 Grenfell Tower fire and subsequent public inquiry exposed the widespread use of hazardous cladding on buildings across England and Wales. Lubna Shuja, Law Society president Source: Darren Filkins Many thousands of flat owners living in potential fire traps faced the worry of huge bills to manage […] Click here to view original…

The cost of the Grenfell Tower disaster has soared to sums of £1.17billion The majority of the £1.17billion sum will be paid for by the British taxpayer The cost of the Grenfell Tower disaster has soared to nearly 4,000 times the amount builders saved by replacing fire-retardant cladding with […] Click here to view original…

Camden Council has breached fire safety standards in thousands of homes in the borough. Photo: Fitzrovia News. Council tenants are being put “at potential risk of harm” because Camden Council is failing to put right thousands of fire safety issues, a housing watchdog has found. The government’s Regulator of […] Click here to view original…