MP Stephen Timms on the cladding scandal at Waterside Park
East Ham MP Stephen Timms on how dangerous cladding on tower blocks at Waterside Park is effecting residents, leaseholders and mortgage lenders.
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East Ham MP Stephen Timms on how dangerous cladding on tower blocks at Waterside Park is effecting residents, leaseholders and mortgage lenders.
South London leaseholders caught up in the cladding scandal are selling their furniture to keep up with huge bills. The rapid spread of the 2017 Grenfell fire, which claimed 72 lives, was found to be caused by dangerous cladding. Now laws designed to make sure combustible cladding and other fire hazards are removed from buildings have left leaseholders facing tens of thousands of pounds in costs. Many of their homes are now unsellable as lenders will not offer mortgages until the cladding is removed. Some blocks were found to be so at risk after External Wall System ...
Photo added of leaseholders (not named) on estate in Lambeth
South London leaseholders caught up in the cladding scandal are selling their furniture to keep up with huge bills. The rapid spread of the 2017 Grenfell fire, which claimed 72 lives, was found to be caused by dangerous cladding. Now laws designed to make sure combustible cladding and other fire hazards are removed from buildings have left leaseholders facing tens of thousands of pounds in costs. Many of their homes are now unsellable as lenders will not offer mortgages until the cladding is removed. Some blocks were found to be so at risk after External Wall System ...
Exclusive A Basingstoke apartment block has combustible cladding similar to that of Grenfell Tower, The Gazette can reveal. A BASINGSTOKE apartment block is covered in similar combustible cladding that fatally wrapped Grenfell Tower, The Gazette can reveal. The external cladding at Crown Heights, which has around 250 flats, contains the flammable material 'expanded polystyrene' and features no fire breaks. It means that should there be a blaze, it could engulf the whole building in a similar manner to the Grenfell Tower tragedy in 2017. The block, located on Alencon Link and managed b...