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Developer to cover cladding replacement costs

20 Apr 2018

BARRATT HOMES has announced it will pay the £2m bill to replace cladding at the Citiscape development in Croydon.

Battersea residents facing £40,000 cladding bills

20 Apr 2018

RESIDENTS OF 80 flats in the Sesame apartments will have to pay individual bills of up to £40,000 to replace flammable cladding panels.

Greenwich residents consider class action over cladding

20 Apr 2018

Homeowners in New Capital Quay are considering legal action against developers Galliard Homes over combustible cladding replacement costs.

RIBA concerned cladding ban may be avoided

18 Apr 2018

THE ROYAL Institute of British Architects (RIBA) stated that it is seeking a ‘total ban’ on the use of combustible cladding, but that it is worried the Hackitt review will ‘avoid’ this.

Fire door advice requires ‘no change’ post Grenfell

18 Apr 2018

AN INDEPENDENT panel stated that ‘no change’ was needed to building fire safety advice after a fire door from Grenfell Tower recently failed police tests.

Birmingham sprinkler funding plan blocked

18 Apr 2018

THE CITY council’s housing and homes overview scrutiny committee ruled that it should reconsider the £31m investment in sprinkler retrofitting for the city’s high rises.

Leaked Grenfell report reveals ‘calamitous deficiencies’

17 Apr 2018

THE REPORT, produced by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) and leaked to a newspaper, accounts the fire in ‘forensic detail’.

Councils stretch budgets for fire safety works

17 Apr 2018

COUNCILS ACROSS the UK are said to be having to ‘stretch already limited’ housing budgets to carry out essential fire safety improvements.

Newham defends stay put policy after tower fire

17 Apr 2018

NEWHAM COUNCIL has defended its stay put policy for high rise fires after a blaze at David Lee Point in Stratford this week.

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F&RM April 2018

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