Posts Tagged ‘Fire’
Homeowners face sales falling through and zero valuations due to fire safety test delays
Homeowners have found themselves stuck with unsellable and potentially unsafe flats due to delays over fire safety tests. Which? has been contacted by more than 120 readers who are facing difficulties buying, selling or remortgaging flats due to lenders asking for a safety certificate that they’re finding impossible to obtain. Here, we explain a chain…
Read MoreCladding on Cardiff flats similar to that used at London’s Grenfell Tower is finally to be removed
Grenfell-style cladding on student flats in Cardiff is finally set to be removed more than three years after the devastating tower block fire in London. Lumis Student Living, in Tyndall Street, is clad with aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding, similar to that which caused the rapid spread of the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. […]…
Read MoreGrenfell-style cladding to be replaced on Cardiff student flats
Cladding on the blocks will be replaced with solid aluminium of the same colour Grenfell-style cladding on student flats in Cardiff is set to be removed more than three years after the deadly tower block fire in London. Lumis Student Living on Tyndall Street has aluminium composite material (ACM) […] Click here to view original…
Read More“White goods should be recorded in tower blocks to prevent fires” urges Electrical Safety First
The Fire Safety Bill introduced by the Home Office is designed to ensure people feel safe in their homes and prevent a tragedy like Grenfell Tower from ever happening again. An amendment has been tabled that would aim to protect tower block residents from the dangers of white goods-related […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreThird of all buildings with Grenfell-style cladding yet to have it removed
A national review identified 458 buildings containing ACM cladding (Picture: PA/Reuters) Almost a third of all buildings wrapped in Grenfell-style cladding are yet to have it removed, figures show. After the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, a nationwide review identified 458 buildings containing highly flammable aluminium composite material (ACM). According […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreRemediation of two-thirds of ACM-clad buildings not finished
Latest data shows 243 buildings still have ACM cladding, more than three years on from Grenfell fire Two-thirds of the 458 buildings identified as having dangerous ACM cladding systems have not yet completed work to remove and replace the cladding, according to the latest official data. The latest monthly […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreCalls grow to include student accommodation in fund to remove cladding from buildings
The Cube Fire. Credit GMFRS THE publication of the report into The Cube Fire prompted a flurry of people to sign a petition calling for Government cladding from student accommodation. Although the report did not look at the the part the cladding may have played in the fire, it […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreThe draft Building Safety Bill and Higher-risk buildings: Overview and Definitions
The draft Building Safety Bill was published on 20 July 2020, intending to ‘deliver the principles and recommendations for reform set out by Dame Judith Hackitt’s Independent Review of Building Regulations and Fire Safety .’ The Impact Assessment states that the ‘overall effect of the Bill will be to […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreCouple trapped in flat waiting for fire safety form that could take ‘years’ to come
A couple expecting a baby are trapped in their East London flat because their housing association cannot produce the fire safety certificate now required by many lenders to offer a mortgage on homes in multi-storey buildings. Siobhan Frost and her partner have been warned by their housing association Peabody […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreExplained: The Draft Building Safety Bill
The government is bringing forward changes that will improve building and fire safety, so that people will be, and will feel, safer in their homes. Background The government is bringing forward fundamental changes in the Draft Building Safety Bill that will improve building and fire safety, so that people […] Click here to view original…
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