Posts Tagged ‘Inspection’
Post-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…
Read MoreFire marshals patrol Ipswich flats 24/7 amid cladding fears
Cardinal Lofts, in Ipswich where there are concerns about the cladding Picture: Archant Fire marshals are patrolling an Ipswich Waterfront tower block 24 hours a day after inspectors raised fears about fire safety. Sarah Cushion has a buy-let-flat in Cardinal Lofts. Photo: Sarah Cushion But the move has left […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreWe can’t move because of cladding chaos: How 1.5m homeowners could be stuck for TEN YEARS in unsellable tower block flats
When Keeba Critchlow picked up the keys to her first home in 2014 she was thrilled at becoming a homeowner. Not for a moment did she envisage the nightmare that would await her six years on – unable to sell her one-bedroom flat as a result of red tape […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreRemember Grenfell? Of course you do. Thousands of millennials are still living in flats surrounded by dangerous cladding and trapped in mortgage prisons as a result
It has been three years since the Grenfell tragedy which caused the deaths of 72 people in West London. The fire started in a fridge-freezer on the fourth floor of the 24 storey building and quickly spread throughout the whole of the tower block which housed 350 people. An […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreGovernment’s fire safety plan ‘will fund just 12 new inspectors to cover two million homes’
Flats are covered by the new bill ( AFP via Getty Images ) The government’s new Fire Safety Bill would fund just 12 new officials to help cover safety inspections in two million homes, firefighters have claimed. The Fire Brigades Union accused the government of risking another Grenfell -style […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreResidents in 344-apartment Edgbaston development are told they live in a fire death trap
Hemisphere apartments Residents in an Edgbaston apartment complex are appealing for help after a fire safety inspection found they were living in a deathtrap. Fire engineers reported a 100% failure rate when they examined external wall systems at Hemisphere Apartments in Edgbaston, and found that fire control systems are […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreWhat can property managers do to ensure tower blocks are fire-safe?
Following the Grenfell Tower fire, the government’s ban on the use of combustible materials in the external walls of high-rise residential buildings has had a far-reaching impact. Since December 2018, when it issued its guidance covering cladding on blocks of 18m or higher in England and Wales, some valuers […] Click here to view original…
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