Posts Tagged ‘London’
Housing association to evacuate 1,000-home modular development due to ‘multitude’ of fire safety issues
A housing association will evacuate 858 residents from a modular west London development, after intrusive inspections identified fire safety issues so serious that the safety of residents can no longer be guaranteed. Click here to view original web page at www.insidehousing.co.uk
Read MoreGrenfell cladding scandal exposed as 1.5million trapped in fire risk hell
Rhiannon Creasey faced £45,000 after her block failed a safety test. She is pictured outside the North London block where she bought her apartment after construction was completed in 2014. A recent survey shows the cladding on the building does not pass fire safety checks and could cost millions […] Click here to view original…
Read More‘This report could save lives’ – Sadiq Khan Mayor of London praises LBC investigation
The Mayor of London has praised an LBC exclusive report into ‘forged’ cladding-safety certificates saying it could potentially “save lives.” LBC Correspondent Rachael Venables led an investigation which found evidence that a company in South-Wales has provided a number of forged ‘cladding-safety’ forms to unsuspecting customers, for thousands of […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreBritish homeowners face bankruptcy, homelessness
When single mother Timea scraped together enough money to buy a two-bedroom flat in London, she looked forward to providing her son with the security of their own home. But two years later, Timea and thousands of other homeowners in Britain face bankruptcy and homelessness due to the cost […] 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 MoreTearful caller “devastated” as her daughter’s home is branded unsellable due to cladding
This tearful caller was devastated at her daughter’s home being branded unsellable due to cladding, leaving her daughter “trapped” and “absolutely terrified.” On Monday, LBC found residents of a North London tower block have been told their flats are effectively worthless due to the building’s cladding being inadequate. After […] Click here to view original…
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 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 MoreThe dangers of living in lockdown in flats covered with flammable cladding
Ritu Saha, of Bromley in south London, is living in a building with flammable cladding during lockdown (Picture: Cladding Action Group) A woman living in a block of flats which could go up in flames at any moment has described how its residents feel ‘completely trapped’ during the coronavirus […] Click here to view original…
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