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You are here: Home / News / Government may help over waking watch bills

Government may help over waking watch bills

May 1, 2020 //  by Admin4

Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick could be giving cladding victims a helping hand over waking watch fire warden costs

By Harry Scoffin

Cladding sites paying for waking watch costs may get government help, Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick told the Commons on April 28.

Replying to Labour housing shadow Mike Amesbury, Mr Jenrick said:

“With regard to waking watch, I have asked the noble Lord Greenhalgh, the new Minister with responsibility for building safety, to look into this to see what we can do to reduce the cost of waking watch for members of the public in this position, and to ensure that waking watches, where they are required, can continue despite the lockdown.”

This is the first indication that government money might pay for waking watch, which has already cost leaseholders hundreds of thousands of pounds.

It is encouraging news for the leaseholders who have received no pledge of government assistance, such as sites where the height of the building is less than 18 metres, or where there are huge hikes in insurance costs.

Leaseholders at Paddington Walk development in central London have already paid £700,000 for waking watch, while at Northpoint, a site of only 49 flats, leaseholders collectively are paying £11,000 a month.

“Freedom of Information requests showed at least 380 blocks of flats have watches in place, costing some people as much as £840 a month – more than their monthly mortgage payments,” reports the Huffington Post.

Coronavirus Brings Removal Of Dangerous Grenfell-Style Cladding To A Halt

Get the latest on coronavirus. Sign up to the Daily Brief for news, explainers, how-tos, opinion and more. Work to strip dangerous cladding from tower blocks has ground to a halt because of the coronavirus outbreak.

Mr Jenrick said that coronavirus lockdown has slowed the pace of cladding remediation, with contractors downing tools “on as many as 60% of sites”. But that work should resume immediately.

Speaking after virtual question time, Mr Amesbury said to Inside Housing magazine: “We need more of a sense of urgency and a firmer commitment from the government on this matter. Leaseholders are in desperate need of transitional support to cover very expensive waking watch schemes.”

Government looking at ways to reduce waking watch costs for residents, Jenrick says

Government looking at ways to reduce waking watch costs for residents, Jenrick says #ukhousing The government is investigating means to reduce the cost of waking watch services for residents in buildings with dangerous cladding, housing secretary Robert Jenrick has said #ukhousing Asked by Labour’s shadow housing minister Mike Amesbury what is being done for residents in this position, Mr Jenrick said he had tasked Baron Stephen Greenhalgh, minister of state for building safety and communities, to investigate measures.

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Please sort out ‘waking watch’ yourselves owing to coronavirus, says freeholder of Circle 109, Liverpool Lord GreenhalghGreenhalgh to Communities Select Committee: 1,700 non-ACM cladding blocks at high risk and some waking watch costs are ‘usurious’ Jeremy Pocklington cladding scandalMHCLG officials tell MPs: Don’t know costs of waking watch. No idea that at least three cladding sites are uninsured. We are not to blame but ‘30 years of developer failures’ Sarah Jones claddingCoronavirus lockdown should not stop work on cladding, government told Mike Amesbury: Young, highly mortgaged, often shared owners, with now uncertain employment … are facing homelessness and ruin over cladding

Category: Cladding scandal, Latest News, News, ParliamentTag: Cladding scandal, Grenfell cladding, Harry Scoffin, Huffington Post, Inside Housing, Lord Greenhalgh, Mike Amesbury MP, Northpoint, Paddington Walk, Robert Jenrick, Waking watch contracts

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  1. Michael Epstein

    May 2, 2020 at 11:05 am

    I note he talks of “reducing costs” not the fundamental issue of who is responsible for those costs?

  2. Trevor Bradley

    May 3, 2020 at 12:39 pm

    Yes, I note Robert Jenrick speaks about reducing costs. I should dam well think so – for example, Northpoint, only 49 flats, costing £11k per month, that’s £2,538 per week.
    Which rip off mafia outfit are running these waking watch schemes. It’s a joke.
    I would like to see a full detailed breakdown of costs on how these figures are substantiated.
    As a tax payer I seriously object to any of my contribution to be used to fund such ridiculous costs

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