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Birmingham Leaseholder Action Group (BrumLAG)
BrumLAG In the Media
Rally Interview on BBC Radio WM
Members of BrumLAG was interviewed for BBC Radio West Midlands about the Birmingham Rally talking about the #EnoughIsEnough protest.
EOCS 5 June Rallies Live Stream
EOCS 5 June Rallies Full Live Stream Sarah from CladDAG and Birmingham EOCS Rally Livestream
BrumLAG Interview on BBC Radio WM
Jen from BrumLAG was interviewed by Daz Hale on BBC Radio West Midlands about the Mayoral Hustings talking about the Cladding and Fire Safety Scandal.
Mayoral Hustings
Thanks to everyone who joined us for our Mayoral Hustings to hear the candidates discuss the Cladding and Fire Safety Scandal. To the candidates who answered with sincerity. Liam Byrne MP – Labour Party Cllr Steve Caudwell – Green Party Andy Street – Conservative Jenny Wilkinson – Liberal Democrat Chaired by Patrick Burns, a consummate…
BrumLAG Open Meeting 22 Feb 2021
We discuss the latest Government funding announcement, with guest speakers and impact statements from those affected. And an update on the national Building Safety Scandal. Guest speakers Andy Street West Midlands Mayor and Preet Gill MP, with a contribution from Andrew Mitchell MP. Recording Slides Q&A Answers to the questions raised in the…
Jen 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”
End Our Cladding Scandal Birmingham Summit on Capitol Radio
Telling the housing minister Lord Greenhalgh about their dangerous cladding!
Birmingham Cladding Scandal Summit 22 Oct 2020
Roundtable discussion on the cladding scandal with affected residents, Lord Greenhalgh, Minister for Building Safety and Communities, Mike Amesbury MP, Shadow Minister for Housing, Communities and Local Government, and Birmingham MPs.
Government
Northwich MP Mike Amesbury makes virtual Parliament appearance
Mike Amesbury makes his first appearance in the Commons via video link NORTHWICH MP Mike Amesbury used his first virtual appearance in the new ‘hybrid parliament’ to grill ministers about potentially lethal Grenfell-style cladding on homes. Due to social distancing measures, the House of Commons is operating with a […] Click here to view original…
Flat owners living lockdown in fear of fire and bankruptcy
Residents of the St George apartment building in Leeds Copyright: jpimedia First-time buyer Hayley Tillotson worked hard to achieve her ambition of owning her own home. The 28-year-old moved back in with her father for five years and saved until she had the deposit needed to buy her one-bedroom […] Click here to view original…
Residents in flat blocks with unsafe cladding still waiting for details on Government help scheme, MP says
Earlier this year the Government announced a new £1bn fund to pay for the removal and replacement of unsafe cladding for high-rise buildings. This was on top of £600m already pledged to remove the type of cladding which was on Grenfell Tower. Owners of flats in a dozen buildings […] Click here to view original…
Dangerous combustible cladding still not replaced on 70% of buildings
Smoke billows out from the 24-storey Grenfell Tower DANGEROUS cladding has still not been replaced on the vast majority of at-risk blocks of flats, a damning survey by MPs found today. The housing, communities and local government committee (HCLG) quizzed 1,352 people living in such buildings as part of […] Click here to view original…
Fatcat developers created our housing crisis. Here’s how to stop them
If you want to see who influences the government, you can do worse than look at Whitehall’s neighbours. In a grand Victorian building opposite the House of Commons in Parliament Square stands the headquarters of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors . With a history dating back to 1792, […] Click here to view original…
Remediation of unsafe cladding to continue despite COVID-19
Although the issue has been partially obscured from public view by the coronavirus crisis, the UK government has said that work to replace flammable cladding on residential buildings of 18m or taller remains a priority. Helen Andrews, a construction law partner at European law firm Fieldfisher , takes a […] Click here to view original…
Regional leaders vow to continue cladding removal
Cladding is being replaced at Vallea Court in Manchester’s Green Quarter A group of local leaders, including Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham and Liverpool City Region Metro Mayor Steve Rotheram, has pledged to continue work to remove unsafe cladding from high-rise buildings despite the Covid-19 lockdown. The pledge came in […] Click here to view original…
Up to 23,700 households still living in blocks with Grenfell-style cladding
Up to 23,700 households across the country could be living in blocks that are still covered in Grenfell-style aluminium composite (ACM) cladding, despite nearly three years passing since the tragic fire in west London that killed 72 people. […] Click here to view original web page at www.insidehousing.co.uk
Sprinklers to be compulsory in high rise flats over 11m
Building regulations in Approved Document B will be updated in May to cut the height for sprinklers to 11m The move goes further than first floated by Government, which initially suggested changing the 30m height rule to 18m. Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick said the plan along with further reforms […] Click here to view original…
Video
| Event Name | Westminster Hall |
| House | Commons |
| Event Location | Westminster Hall |
| Event Type | Second chamber |
| Date | Wed 12 Feb 2020 |
| Start Time | 15:10:00 |
| End Time | 15:13:44 |
From Birmingham Live Article 4 March 2020
#CladdingScandal Rally at Westminster 24 February 2020