Cladding scandal

Michael Gove’s admission today that regulation failures in part caused Grenfell clears path to final resolution of the building safety crisis

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

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

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’

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

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?)

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

Demonstrations and going to the press – and involving LKP – improved our situation hugely, say Ballymore leaseholders

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

And so the building safety crisis lurches towards mass forfeitures …

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

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)

Pensioners in retirement housing face £150,000 fire safety bill, but McCarthy and Stone isn’t reponsible (nor is FirstPort, and NHBC hasn’t responded)

Why the law won’t help cladding leaseholders

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

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

Government steps back from dumping all cladding costs on leaseholders

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

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

LKP survey of EWS1 shows that 90% of cladding sites DO need remediation

‘Everybody must call on government, whoever you vote for’ to resolve cladding crisis, says Starmer

Jenrick’s £12bn home-building media fanfare falls flat as LBC radio returns to the cladding scandal

Building Safety Bill means … leaseholders are going to have to pay a lot of money to clear up the mess of other people

MHCLG 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’

Barratt’s £15.8m bill at Citiscape … and £70m bill for all cladding sites

United Nations criticises UK government’s approach to the cladding crisis

Apsana Begum takes to Zoom to help trapped Poplar and Limehouse cladding victims

‘Years’ to sign off Peabody flats as safe, BBC is told. That means no one is able to sell up and leave …

An open letter to Robert Jenrick: the costs of delayed leasehold reform

Long Harbour’s Adriatic Land backs leaseholders at Skyline Central 1 to get public money for HPL removal