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Robert Jenrick: Why department is setting up HQ here in Wolverhampton
Government Communities Minister Robert Jenrick reveals why he is moving out of London. Robert Jenrick From the moment the Prime Minister came into office, he’s shown his determination to level up the country and ensure that everyone has the opportunity to succeed, regardless of where they live. The importance […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreEstate agencies slammed over property listings that ignored cladding crisis
Several estate agencies have taken down listings after they were revealed to have been promoting homes for sale within a tower block adversely affected by the cladding scandal. Branches of Romans and Winkworth in Basingstoke along with three local/hybrid agencies including Vesta, British Homesellers and Express have listed properties […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreJen from BrumLAG on Newsnight
“We all bought our homes in good faith and deserve a right to be safe in our homes.” Jenny Reid, from the Birmingham Leaseholder Action Group, says £3.5bn in extra govt funding for building safety still “seriously underestimates the size and scale of the issue”
Read MoreHorrified NHS worker living in flats with dangerous cladding hit with £58,000 bill
Residents in Brindley House, Birmingham, were sent bills for the work A devastated flat owner in a block with dangerous cladding has told of her horror after opening a service bill demanding £58,000. NHS worker Hana Imaan, 40, was left reeling – as were fellow neighbours with bills as […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreJeremy Clarkson: Is there anyone honourable in government who’ll take on this deadly cladding disaster?
What a winter. America is teetering on the brink of civil war, a more infectious new strain of the virus has arrived from South Africa, we are all locked up like hedgehogs, Brexit is messing up food supplies to Northern Ireland and the normally placid state of Denmark has […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreThousands of new hospitals, flats and schools at risk of fire
Nick Kirwin paid £160,000 for a new flat in Manchester but doesn’t know whether the cladding and insulation are safe A new block at Great Ormond Street Hospital and a school in Boris Johnson’s constituency are among nearly 1,400 public buildings with walls that could have fire risks, an […] Click here to view original…
Read MorePeople’s ‘lives are being ruined’ by unsafe cladding problem in Eastbourne
They say they are in ‘a very stressful situation’ due to the ongoing debate around who is to pay for the repairs. In Eastbourne around 40 buildings including several in Sovereign Harbour have the cladding. In 2017 Grenfell Tower in London went up in flames killing 72 people. The […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreRICS issues cladding guidance for public consultation
The Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) has issued proposed guidance for public consultation, stating that on buildings over six storeys there should be no cladding or curtain wall glazing on the building. For buildings of five or six storeys, the guidance proposes that there should not be a […] Click here to view original…
Read MorePost-Grenfell cladding inspections find other fire risks
image captionFlat owners have been organising fire safety checks Fire safety inspections have uncovered hundreds of blocks of flats in England and Wales with faulty or missing fire prevention measures, the BBC has found. Flat owners have been looking for evidence of unsafe cladding in the wake of the […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreFreeholders ‘shockingly’ able to hide results of EWS1 form if building not fire safe!
by: Beth Rudolf, director of delivery at the Conveyancing Association (CA) No one who has seen the horrific images of the Grenfell Tower disaster will forget just how devastating that fire was, the loss of life it caused, or the deep-seated belief it engendered that this should be something […] Click here to view original…
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