Posts Tagged ‘MP’
Grenfell style ACM cladding being removed from six blocks at Glasgow Harbour
(2) Work has starting to remove potentially dangerous cladding form tower blocks at Glasgow Harbour. Six blocks, including the two tallest on the riverside, are to have the ACM (aluminium composite material) cladding removed and replaced with non combustible solid aluminium cladding. The ACM was the type of cladding […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreOne in five leaseholders trapped by dangerous cladding have thought of suicide or self-harm, survey reveals
More than 20% of leaseholders affected by the cladding scandal have had suicidal thoughts or felt compelled to self-harm, an exclusive survey for Inside Housing has revealed. At a protest in February, people called for action for the national cladding scandal to be ended (picture: Peter Apps) Sharelines The […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreCalls to extend restriction on combustible materials
The RIBA recommends that the restriction introduced in December 2018 should: be extended to include hotels, hostels and boarding houses, and all buildings where a catastrophic event could cause multiple fatalities. apply to key materials in external walls only. If not, the list of materials exempt from the ban […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreKirkby high-rise leaseholders claim management company ‘ripping them off’ over £302,000 fire safety works
Willow Rise and Beech Rise in Roughwood Drive, Kirkby, where leaseholders say their management company is “ripping them off” Residents of two Kirkby tower blocks have accused the buildings’ management company of ripping them off after they were charged £300,000 for fire safety works. Leaseholders at Willow Rise and […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreAn open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform
LKP chair of trustees Martin Boyd writes to Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick to raise concerns over leasehold reform Dear Robert, Just over ten years ago, an old leaseholder died of shame because she could not pay the huge major works bill from her social sector landlord. That single death […] 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…
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 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 MoreBrum leaseholders on uninsured cladding site face eviction, reports BBC R4 You and Yours
In default of their mortgages. Some furloughed. Some unemployed. All looking to government … Brindley House, pictured behind, is a 16-storey ex-telecom office building from the 1970s that was converted into flats in 2011 after years of abandonment (photo credit Elliott Brown). The former BT property will lie empty […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreNHS heroes stuck in cladding ‘bureaucratic nightmare’, Mayor tells MPs
The Grenfell Tower block in west London in October 2019. Photograph: Steve Parsons/PA. Hundreds of Hackney leaseholders are living with “considerable stress and anxiety” as they battle building owners, mortgage lenders and the government over the removal of potentially dangerous cladding. This was the message from Hackney’s mayor in […] Click here to view original…
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