We are only billing leaseholders for the fire marshals not Grenfell cladding removal, says Slough Council is understood to have bought the freehold to the stricken site for £1 – officially, a ‘nominal fee’ – off freehold investor Robert Steinhouse Liverpool debt collectors JB Leitch to take the tribunal action Leaseholders at Nova House which […]
£3m Grenfell cladding bills fall on residents at Lendlease’s Cypress Place and Vallea Court
The property tribunal last week dumped the cost of removing Grenfell cladding on the residents at Cypress Place and Vallea Court in Manchester’s Green Quarter, which were built by Australian builder Lendlease. And Vallea Court pays for the “waking watch” fire marshals. In addition, the tribunal declined to issue a section 20c order, which means […]
Ground rent speculator Robert Steinhouse cuts and runs from Nova House, but who pays £4m Grenfell bill?
Slough council may take over Nova House from ground speculator Robert Steinhouse, but it is an open question whether it will pay to remove the Grenfell cladding. Communities Secretary Sajid Javid optimistically believed that freehold owners would pay up – in law, the building and land is their’s – but that was never very likely. […]
