Cladding scandal

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

New Capital Quay Litigation continues, with concern that repairs may still not meet Building Regulations

Ted Baillieu, ex-pm of Victoria, tells London cladding leaseholders that Australians identified flats most at risk and sorted them out first (but there were loans to flat owners)

Bottomley leads Tory rebellion of 32 MPs, but government defeats amendment to Fire Safety Bill

NHBC controls up to 90% of new build warranties: law professors raise concerns …

Housing crisis. Possible banking crisis. And lease forfeitures ‘very, very soon’, Communities Select Committee is warned

As 17% of cladding leaseholders consider bankruptcy, LKP funding proposal offers alternative to successive crises facing flat-owners

Why the law won’t help cladding leaseholders

LKP response to Robert Jenrick £3.5bn ‘exceptional intervention’ to cladding high-rises today

Question Time: Zoom meeting with LKP cladding funding proposal team, Tuesday 5pm February 9 2021

Must see: cladding video. AND Barratt backs an industry-wide levy

Feeble government ministers bankrupted Hayley Tillotson, and will do the same to thousands more …

Non-ACM Building Safety Fund is four times over-subscribed and is doling out £2m per block

Why is Michael Wade rushing forced loans on leaseholders before Grenfell Inquiry considers government and housebuilders’ failings?

Sunday Times: officials trying to gag leaseholders. Daily Mail: Wade funding proposal will crash property market

RICS and lenders ease EWS1 for under-18m blocks which has blighted the re-sale market

Freeholders must pay for cladding – or lose freeholds, say LKP patron MPs

Here is how to avoid dumping the cladding scandal bill on leaseholders or taxpayers