Posts Tagged ‘Northpoint’
Northpoint residents spared extra parking charges during cladding removal
(3) Residents forced to move their vehicles while their building undergoes work to remove deadly flammable cladding won’t be charged for parking, after a deal to absolve them of the costs was struck with the local authority. Inhabitants of Bromley’s Northpoint Tower feared they would be slugged with extra […] Click here to view original…
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 MoreMy family died in Grenfell Tower fire tragedy – now I’m terrified for others living in deathtraps they can’t sell
EVERY time Nabil Choucair shuts his eyes, he’s haunted by the image of his family’s home – a flat on the 22nd floor of Grenfell Tower – going up in flames. Nabil, 46, lost his mother, sister, brother-in-law and his three young nieces aged 13, 10 and three in […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreUK could be breaking international law over cladding, says UN
The UN has warned Britain that its failure to strip combustible cladding from high-rise buildings containing tens of thousands homes may be a breach of international law. In a fresh headache for the housing secretary, Robert Jenrick, the global body is demanding answers about the UK government’s delayed programme […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreManchester tower block residents ineligible for £1bn recladding fund
Residents of a Manchester tower block facing bills of thousands of pounds to fix dangerous cladding have been dealt “a massive blow” after finding out they are ineligible to apply for the government’s new £1bn building safety fund. The fund, which was officially launched on Tuesday , excludes remediation […] Click here to view original…
Read MoreYour data, your experience
The coronavirus outbreak is causing misery for thousands of people already engulfed in the Grenfell cladding scandal, with residents revealing fresh fears of financial hardship on top of major concerns about their health and safety. People living in tower blocks covered in dangerous cladding had hoped a nightmare was over after the government last month announced an…
Read MoreResident’s of ‘death-trap’ Bromley block appeal for funds to cover fire-watch cost
Left To Right Hayley Kennedy, 33, Graham Snewin, 67, Rituparna Saha, 43, Rachel Guy, 57, Luke Austin, 31 Residents in a dangerously flammable Bromley flat-block are raising funds to cover the cost of round-the-clock waking watch as coronavirus isolation cuts off many of their incomes. Northpoint, a converted office […] Click here to view original…
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