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You are here: Home / News / Northern mayors and MPs to join cladding demo outside Parliament on February 25

Northern mayors and MPs to join cladding demo outside Parliament on February 25

February 18, 2020 //  by Admin4

Paul Dennett Andy Burnham
Andy Burnham (right), mayor of Greater Manchester, and Paul Dennett are organising the demonstration for cladding leaseholders outside Parliament on February 25

By Harry Scoffin

The directly elected mayors of Manchester and Salford will join MPs, and possibly London mayor Sadiq Khan, in a demonstration over the cladding scandal outside Parliament on February 25.

Andy Burnham, a former Labour cabinet minister, and Paul Dennett will be joining cladding leaseholders and MPs such as Sir Peter Bottomley, co-chair of the APPG on leasehold and joint patron of LKP, and Hilary Benn.

Greater Manchester leaders to bring together high rise residents to lobby Parliament

MAYOR of Greater Manchester Andy Burnham and City Mayor of Salford Paul Dennett are calling on the Government to take immediate action to support high rise residents living in unsafe buildings.

A large number of other MPs will undoubtedly turn out, as may Sadiq Khan, the London mayor.

The demonstration will take place at Old Palace Yard (opposite the Lords) at 1pm-1.30pm.

The event has been organised by the Manchester Cladiators group.

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Leaseholders from across the country who are being affected by the cladding crisis are urged to attend.

Andy Burnham said:

“The Government needs to take action in the forthcoming Budget. Residents are living a nightmare at the moment and should not be left in this limbo a moment longer. Every week that the Government fails to act is a week where many will face another bill that they can’t afford. This is why we are holding a lobby of Parliament on 25 February. Our residents’ lives are being ruined through no fault of their own. The Government need to hear their experiences and concerns and support residents by making a package of financial and mental health support available.”

Paul Dennett said:

“Over two years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, Greater Manchester still has 78 buildings that have adopted interim measures because of significant fire safety deficiencies.

“It is wholly unacceptable that residents are still left ‘trapped’, many are unable to sell, insure or re-mortgage their homes and are faced with bankrupting bills just to make their homes safe from fire. The Government must own their rhetoric, they said residents and leaseholders shouldn’t be paying for the remediation of their buildings yet they continue to do so. This is a regulatory crisis on an industrial scale of which residents continue to pay the price.”

Politicians of all parties are demanding that the Treasury take action to end the “cladding lottery” to help leaseholders who do not currently qualify for government money because their blocks do not have Grenfell-style ACM [aluminium composite material] panels.

Labour heavyweight Hilary Benn, the MP who secured the Westminster Hall debate on February 12 said the government’s approach to stressing the “unparalleled fire risk” of ACM as the reason for not expanding the fund as “completely unsustainable”.

Manchester Cladiators is now established as Northern Cladiators in an effort to widen the activist group to include private blocks from Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Sheffield, as well as Manchester.

The Sunday Times journalist Martina Lees wrote:

“Cladding bills have a bigger impact in the north of England, where lower property prices mean repairs can cost half a flat’s value.”

In the article, Fran Reddington, 34, who co-founded the Manchester Cladiators (@McrCladiators) last year, said: “A lot of residents in the North feel isolated. We want to make a loud voice for Boris Johnson.”

In London, too, residents are clubbing together under the UK Cladding Action Group (UKCAG), with more than 144 flocking to an oversubscribed meeting organised with LKP at City Hall earlier this month.

They have all become prisoners in their own homes. They can’t move jobs. They can’t get married. They are putting off having children. They can’t retire. They are stuck.

Martina Lees, The Sunday Times

Grenfell cladding scandal: all flat owners may have to pay for safety report before they can sell

The flat owners with the most expensive fire patrol in Britain have had a “clad-ucation”, as they call it with commendable black humour. It started with strangers in hi-vis vests loitering in the courtyard of their timber-clad block in Leeds. Then they spotted the marshals watching Netflix – and X-rated content – while on duty.

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  1. Paul

    February 23, 2020 at 1:29 am

    The government know they are to blame. MP’s have acknowledged building regulations failed.
    So too have mayors. So too will the village idiot in Llanwrtyd advise Boris who failed and who is to blame.

    If they persist with ignoring the problem and taking leaseholders out of the equation they will in due course be sued by a UK firm of attorneys under supervision of an American Law Firm as well as evidence from competent and knowledgable fire chiefs and regulators unlike what the U.K. has. A moron would have known that the affected buildings are unsafe.

    The government provide funding for flooding victims, corona virus victims and the best one of all … STRANDED THOMAS COOK HOLIDAYMAKERS WHEFE THE GOVERNMENT HAD NO PART IN WHAT HAPPENED YET WITH THE CLADDING ISSUE WHERE GOVERNMENT FAILED IN IMPLEMENTING PROPER BUILDING REGULATIONS LIKE FIRST WORLD COUNTRIES DENMARK, CANADA, USA ETC THEY ABANDONED THE LEASEHOLDERS.

    The government are going to cough up in addition to any bills for psychiatric stress caused.
    Let their be one more death from fire and criminal charges need to then be brought against the Prime Minister and his aides.

    The government can mitigate their damages by immediately changing lease hold law to make LANDLORDS RESPONSIBLE AS WELL AS GOING AFTER ARCHITECTS, BUILDERS, QUANTITY SURVEYORS AND ALL PROFESSIONALS INVOLVED WITH AFFECTED BUILDINGS.

    GOVERNMENT SHOULD ALSO BE INVESTIGATING THE CITY COUNCIL REGULATORS THAT APPROVED THESE BUILDINGS. EU LAW WILL ALSO PROTECT US IN CLAIMS AGAINST THE UK GOVERNMENT.

  2. chas willis

    February 25, 2020 at 6:40 pm

    Paul well posted and needs saying.

    I have posted similar this year, my postings are removed, so well said.

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