All Grenfell Tower articles
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InsightView from the top: Matthew Pratt, chief executive of Redrow
The Redrow chief executive talks to Property Week about his ‘baptism by fire’, why the housebuilder handed back furlough money, the importance of building safety and the contentious issue of cladding.
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News
Experts question if EWS1 move is really a ‘step forward’
Sceptics remain cautious in wake of expert safety advice issued on EWS1 forms for sub-18m tall buildings.
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News
Government criticised over EWS1 policy shift
Experts cast doubt over plans to scrap fire safety forms for buildings below 18m.
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Professional
Will the Building Safety Bill clarify who must pay for cladding costs?
Government proposes a safety regulator and developer levy, but experts criticise the use of vague language.
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News
Four years on from Grenfell
Who can forget the harrowing images of fire ravaging Grenfell Tower in the early hours of Wednesday 14 June 2017, or the shocked incomprehension on the firefighters’ faces as they rushed towards the blaze, which having started as a seemingly innocuous kitchen fire on the fourth floor would spread so ...
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Insight
The personal cost of the cladding crisis
Four years on from the Grenfell disaster, Tristan Wark, senior associate at Goodman Derrick and a leaseholder in a building with cladding-related fire safety issues, calls on the industry to do more to alleviate leaseholder suffering.
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News
Post-Grenfell cladding remediation costs leap
Gleeds reports 10% rise in costs spurred by high demand and materials shortage
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Insight
The time has come to pay for profit
Editor: We express our thanks to the emergency services whose prompt actions prevented the recent fire at New Providence Wharf from becoming a tragic sequel to Grenfell Tower.
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News
Fire breaks out at Ballymore scheme days before remediation works
A fire at Ballymore’s New Providence Wharf scheme in east London broke out early this morning, just days before remediation works to remove ACM cladding were about to start.
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Online
MPs double down on calls for greater cladding funds
Parliament’s housing committee has made fresh calls for the government to recommit to the principle that leaseholders should not have to pay for the removal of unsafe cladding from their homes.
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Online
Cladding costs could hit £50bn, warns contractor
The true cost of the UK cladding crisis could be as high as £50bn, new analysis has found.
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Insight
The government must act on cladding
Editor: When no one can be held responsible, everyone must be accountable. That is why we have a government to collect and use our taxes to defend us, protect us, educate us, heal us, house and employ some of us, or support us when we are not.
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News
Industry faces a backlash as cladding amendment is vetoed
MPs vote against House of Lords amendment to the Fire Safety Bill designed to stop leaseholders paying.
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Professional
Proposed ‘developer tax’ for cladding removal is criticised
There are concerns that new tax is unfair and it could have a knock-on effect on activity in the wider property sector.
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Insight
Cladding victims get stung again
The headlines were improving for Number 10. Britain’s vaccine roll-out was, as Ursula von der Leyen admitted, a ‘speed boat’ to the EU’s ‘tanker’ and Boris was seen as having relocated his mojo.
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Online
Persimmon commits £75m towards cladding investigations
Persimmon has committed £75m towards re-cladding its homes to meet government safety guidance.
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Online
Jenrick unveils developer taxes and £3.5bn fund to pay for cladding removal
Housing secretary Robert Jenrick is to introduce new taxes on developers and a £3.5bn fund to help cover the costs of cladding removal.
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Professional
Funding options limited for removal of unsafe cladding
Critics say timeline for applications is unrealistic and many owners and leaseholders are ineligible for funding
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Professional
Who will meet the costs of fire safety work to residential blocks?
In July, the government published its draft Building Safety Bill, heralding the biggest changes to building safety for nearly 40 years. The reforms will cover any building that is at least 18m or more than six storeys above ground level, containing two or more dwellings.
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News
Conservatives vote down Grenfell bill amendment
The recommendations made during the Grenfell inquiry to amend the Grenfell fire safety bill were voted down by a margin of 318-188 votes in the House of Commons last night.
