Grand Designs’ Kevin McCloud backs Mail on campaign for homeowners stuck in properties with fire-risk cladding Grand Designs Kevin McCloud slammed ministers’ response to cladding crisis TV presenter said plans to make leaseholders cover costs were ‘inappropriate’ Mail revealed long-term loans to fix problem could slash property values by 30% By Miles Dilworth Money Mail … Read more
Faced with dwindling interest rates on savings, John and Veronica Ierston decided to invest their modest retirement savings in property. Fifteen years ago, the couple bought two flats in a brand new block in central Manchester. But when they attempted to sell up and release the equity last autumn, the building was found to be … Read more
BEN WILKINSON: The cladding scandal has seen homeowners bitterly betrayed… ministers must act now to end their misery By Ben Wilkinson for the Daily Mail Published: 22:00 GMT, 5 January 2021 | Updated: 22:00 GMT, 5 January 2021 Home ownership is a dream that takes a lot of hard work and sacrificial saving for many … Read more
Britain is facing its biggest housing crisis in a generation as failures to fix unsafe homes are putting one in seven property deals at risk of collapse, the Mail can reveal. More than a million homeowners have been left unable to sell or remortgage their properties in the wake of the Grenfell disaster. Hundreds of … Read more
Dumb Perignon! Housing minister who should be sorting out the cladding scandal is too busy reviewing champagne Housing Minister Chris Pincher advised voters to drink as ‘alternative vaccine’ In an article for The Critic, he advised glugging £174-a-bottle champagne Pincher recommended trying the 166th edition of the Grand Cru Cuvée Chris Pincher’s department is responsible … Read more
Britain’s biggest building society Nationwide has spoken out on what it is doing to help flat owners in blocks with cladding-related fire safety defects, who are struggling to remortgage or move home. These leaseholders are required to have what is known as an EWS1 form to prove their building is free of fire risk cladding … Read more
Pressure is pilling on the Government to ensure owners of flats earmarked as potentially unsafe in the cladding scandal following the Grenfell disaster do not have to pick up massive repair bills. A cross-party committee of MPs has made it clear in a new report that leaseholders should not be burdened with the costs to … Read more
Tories on verge of revolt over failure to fix cladding scandal in wake of Grenfell tragedy Leaseholders facing bills of up to £115,000 each to remove dangerous cladding MPs Stephen McPartland and Royston Smith have attacked Government over it They aim to build support for solutions that will stop leaseholders paying out By Miles Dilworth … Read more
Hundreds of thousands of flat owners caught in Grenfell cladding row can finally sell their properties Some homeowners had to get an external fire wall review before selling People could be waiting for months or even years for a surveyor’s assessment Government says the forms will not be needed for buildings without cladding By Holly … Read more
Multi-billion pound firm that supplied Grenfell Tower with flammable cladding shunned a safer version to save money, says judge US company Arconic supplied polyethylene panels through company in France Survivors file lawsuit in US because company based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania In court papers they accuse firm of putting lives at risk by supplying the product … Read more