Cladding scandal

MPs join leaseholders at protest to ensure no one is left facing building safety cash calls

Michael Gove gets the cartel of taxpayer subsidised housebuilders to pay up £5bn towards the building safety scandal … but not Lendlease or Galliard

Government dumps Dame Judith Hackitt’s ‘building safety managers’, but what do the latest amendments to the Building Safety Bill mean for leaseholders?

Will government dump Dame Judith Hackitt’s £60,000 a year building safety managers job creation scheme?

Leaseholders helped over building safety crisis is now a ‘bizarre lucky dip’, say MPs

Ted Baillieu: Your misconceived Twitter thread over the ‘polluter pays’ amendment should be removed

After cladding leaseholders issue damning report into housing associations’ response, housing minister Lord Greenhalgh lashes out at ‘sanctity of social housing providers that have built rubbish’

The Building Safety Bill: what do the government’s amendments mean for leaseholders?

Hallmark Property Group seeks to put 44 flats worth £15m on top of a block with ACM cladding, waking watch, a B2 rating after EWS1 … and 75 utterly stressed out leaseholders

Not waiting for Gove: Kelly Tolhurst MP urges freeholder Israel Moskovitz to halt court action against leaseholders over £2m cladding and building safety costs

Morello Quarter leaseholders stall ruinous cost of waking watch, but how useful is court decision for others?

The Building Safety Bill: what’s next and what can leaseholders do?

Taylor Wimpey to pay fire safety works on sites built over past 20 years. (But what’s the catch, as with their tricksy doubling ground plan?)

Gove backs cladding leaseholders in urging investor Norges Bank Investment Management (NBIM) to make UK housebuilders pay for build defects

In Gove we trust, but developers can pay cash

Data tells us sprinklers work, waking watch doesn’t, and freehold punters aren’t picking up the tab, Martin Boyd tells ODI

Hackitt and Knight back dumping unregulated sector-insider ‘building safety managers’ onto leaseholders at £60,000 a year, MPs told

Sun shines on the leaseholders’ demo at Parliament: after Jenrick, is this a new dawn?

Dame Judith Hackitt says cladding leaseholders risk ruin with rip-off charges. She wants to help. But is still at sea over leasehold law …

Fees come first for FirstPort: leaseholders billed at least £39,000 for applications to the Building Safety Fund … And so it begins

EWS1 on under 18m high buildings … is still an utter mess

Curiouser and curiouser: the Building Safety Bill has Second Reading in the Commons

Division as London Assembly opposition urges Sadiq Khan to be tougher on housebuilders over cladding

Tower Hamlets leaseholders find their voice, host free building safety conference with LKP on June 15

Saturday 5 June: Cladding leaseholders to demonstrate outside sales suites of house builders

Enough is enough! Ballymore must pay!

LKP to monitor bank exposure as cladding flats sell to cash buyers in auctions

Fire Safety Bill clears Parliament. So, what’s next?

Communities Select Committee calls on government to scrap cladding loan scheme and establish a ‘Comprehensive Building Safety Fund’

Fire Safety Bill ricochets around Parliament as 31 Conservative MPs again vote against the government

Lords push government’s Fire Safety Bill to the edge as parliamentary session nears end …

Should the buyer beware? Leaseholders and fire safety remediation costs

Government’s use of extra-statutory powers has made the cladding crisis far worse than in Australia (or possibly Scotland), writes LKP trustee