Tag Archives: Building cladding

A building owner found guilty of missing a deadline to remove unsafe cladding has been ordered to pay a total of £60,000. Chaplair Limited was successfully prosecuted on 18 October by Newham Council over delays in remediating a building in East London. On Tuesday (31 October) the company was handed…

A facade specialist has been fined £240,000 after leaving combustible cladding that it was removing from a building on residents’ balconies. According to a statement from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), the incident took place at the eight-storey The Circle apartment block in central Liverpool, where Green Facades was…

Almost three-quarters of applications to the government’s £4.5bn Building Safety Fund (BSF) have been assessed as not eligible, according to new government figures. The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities (DLUHC) says that 3,611 applications for the scheme – intended to fund the remediation of unsafe non-aluminium composite material…

The devolved Scottish government announced on Wednesday (6 September) that it will introduce a Cladding Remediation Bill as part of its 2023/24 legislative programme. The bill would give Scottish ministers “new powers to remediate buildings with unsafe cladding that present a risk to life”, the government announced in a statement.…

A contractor has been told to remove insulation from balconies and issue an apology to residents after breaching a local ban on the use of Kingspan products. It has emerged that, earlier this month, Kent-headquartered Lawtech was told to remove the product it had installed on 16 balconies across the…

Barratt Developments has spent or allocated £180m on making legacy buildings safe in its latest accounts – and warned that there may be more to come. This was in addition to the £434.6m provision it made in its 2022 accounts for such works. In a trading update released ahead of…

The latest annual financial statement from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry reveals that it spent £20.7m in the year to the end of March 2023, taking its total expenditure to £170m. Some £69.7m, or 41 per cent, of its spending went on fees for lawyers representing core participants of the inquiry.…

The latest monthly government data has shown that remediation work is yet to begin on 23 high-rise buildings identified with unsafe aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding. Most of these buildings are in Greater London and Manchester, according to the government. Figures from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities…

Scottish first minister Humza Yousaf has threatened developers with legal action, including new legislation, if they fail to remediate high-rise buildings with dangerous cladding. Last year, the Scottish Government announced that it had reached an agreement with housing firms to assess and, if necessary, make safe more than 100 buildings.…

Construction product testing should take place in systems rather than just individual components, fire brigade bosses have said. The National Fire Chiefs Council (NFCC) called for the change in approach in response to the publication of the review of the construction product testing regime by ex-government advisor Paul Morrell and…