Posts Tagged ‘freeholder’
Homeowners risk missing cladding fund deadline as campaigners call for extension
Residents who hope the cost of cladding repair work will be covered by a government fund fear they will miss out on crucial cash … […] Click here to view original web page at www.telegraph.co.uk
Read MoreGreenhalgh to dump ‘affordable’ cladding bills on leaseholders, which they were promised AGAIN and AGAIN would not happen …
And this is from the minister in whom we invest our hopes for leasehold reform … For the first time in three years a government minister has said that the cladding bills will land on leaseholders, but they will have to be “affordable”. Up until now, all previous ministers […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreMinister refuses to rule out compulsory building purchases to fix flammable cladding
Building freeholders who refuse to fix unsafe and combustible cladding could face losing their property to a compulsory government purchase. Housing minister Christopher Pincher (pictured) confirmed the government was open to all options, potentially including compulsory purchases, to solve the issue. While government funds have been made available for […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreFeature: Flat owners caught in mortgage trap
The Grenfell fire tragedy of June 2017, in which 72 people died, has highlighted fire safety issues with thousands of blocks of flats, exposed decades of lax building controls, and shone a light on a construction sector that focused on building properties fast and cheap. The fire spread quickly […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreApplications for government’s £1bn fund to remove unsafe cladding open next week
Applications for the government’s £1bn fund to remove dangerous cladding from high-rise buildings will open on Monday. More than half a million people in England and Wales could be living in homes with unsafe cladding, analysis by industry body the Association of Residential Managing Agents (ARMA) said in February. […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreResidents should not be left to pay for remedies to unsafe tower block cladding
High-rise buildings (Babek Gadirly – Pexels) In 2015, after eight years of saving, my partner and I were finally able to buy our own home. Two happy years later, I found out that my home was wrapped in dangerous cladding, similar to that found on Grenfell Tower. Overnight, there […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreNew £1 billion building safety fund to remove dangerous cladding from high rise buildings
Building owners urged to register for the government’s £1 billion fund to remove and replace unsafe non-ACM cladding systems on high-rise residential buildings. Fund takes total government funding for cladding remediation to £1.6 billion Sprinkler systems to be provided in all new blocks of high-rise residential buildings over 11 […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreRemediation of non-ACM buildings
In the March 2020 budget, the government announced that it will provide £1 billion in 2020 to 2021 to support the remediation of unsafe non-ACM cladding system on residential buildings 18 metres and over in both the private and social housing sectors. The government is now asking potential applicants […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreCommons nods through Fire Safety Bill, amid plenty of grumbling by veteran MPs from all parties
Sir Mike Penning, Tory MP for Hemel Hempstead and a former fire minister, fumed at the Fire Safety Bill’s implications for leaseholders, who “should not have the burden, which is currently on them all the time, day in, day out” By Harry Scoffin The first new law on fire […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreFlat owners unable to sell or remortgage due to cladding crisis
Cladding is the housing subject no-one wants to resolve, due to the potentially eye-watering costs involved. But it’s slowly suffocating those affected, namely flat owners living in blocks covered in cladding, who want to sell and move on with their lives. The issue is that the owners are unable […] Click here to view original…
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