Cladding scandal

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

Government steps back from dumping all cladding costs on leaseholders

Grenfell is becoming our worst corporate scandal, says Dominic Lawson in Sunday Times

Full APPG, December 10: Can be seen here

MPs attack government for dumping historic building failures onto leaseholders

Greenhalgh to dump ‘affordable’ cladding bills on leaseholders, which they were promised AGAIN and AGAIN would not happen …

Self-interested freeholders and property managers chorus: ‘taxpayer must pay over cladding’ … which, as it happens, leaves their income streams untouched

‘Get out of your ivory tower’: Tory MP turns on Jenrick over ‘shocking betrayal’ of cladding leaseholders

Freeholder Andrew Craige Curtis to use two-storey planning give-away at a north London cladding site while leaseholders ruined with remediation bills

England’s cladding leaseholders could end up with equity stripped out of their homes, warns Welsh minister

Public Accounts Committee issues damning verdict on MHCLG’s handling of the cladding crisis