SCOOP: Michael Gove to announce dangerous cladding policy changes next week- letter from Treasury to DLUHC confirms:
-leaseholders in buildings 11-18m spared cladding costs
-Gove to try to make developers pay £4bn but no new public money
-And this will cover cladding only.
“I’d rather live in prison”: Anthony Kerrane is paralysed but can’t sell his home due to a £100,000 “Grenfell bill”.
He is challenging Boris Johnson to come around to his flat - after the Prime Minister claimed leaseholders lived with “unnecessary anxiety”.
@RagsMartel reports
Sir David Amess was chair of the APPG Fire Safety and Rescue Group and fearlessly went up against his own party to warn of the dangers of a huge cladding fire in tower blocks after Lakanal House, where 6 people died. This was years before Grenfell
It was an honour to be part of the #EndOurCladdingScandal rally today. A rally with a clear call for unity, strength and togetherness in our fight for Justice and making all homes safe in this country. Our fight is your fight. We won’t give up until we see justice and change 💚
What a great turnout at the @EOCS_Official cladding rally today. The size of this crisis & the number of individuals affected is unacceptable.
The Govt must listen. The Govt must act. The Govt must end the cladding scandal.
Shadow SoS for Housing Lucy Powell:
"I won't rest until we get justice for leaseholders so that you don't have to pay the costs of things that were no fault of your own, so we can get reform for leaseholders"
Thank you @LucyMPowell 🙏
#LeasholdersTogether#BuildingSafetyCrisis
Building safety crisis campaigners protest in Parliament, urging the Government to make homes safe.
More than 4 years after the Grenfell fire, a million people are still at risk, and face financial ruin struggling to pay their spiralling building costs.
@RagsMartel reports
An important day of action. The Government would be hard pressed not to hear the clear, united message of so many involved. @NLC_2019@LKPleasehold@EOCS_Official
🔊🔊🔊'Leaseholders Together' on a great day and with a clear message: support the McPartland Amendment, reform the Building Safety Bill, and ... support our valued colleagues, not just myself, fighting hard to get justice for leaseholders! @NLC_2019@LKPleasehold@EOCS_Official
This is why I will not give up campaigning to end the #claddingscandal
Four years on from Grenfell, millions of people are still living in dangerous buildings. The Govt's response has been woefully inadequate & I will do all I can to work with @BrumLag to get the change we need
TONIGHT: As the cladding crisis continues, we report on how flammable insulation is making some buildings too expensive to insure and spiralling costs for leaseholders.
Conservative MP and chair of the APPG on leasehold reform @PBottomleyMP joins us at 22:45
#Newsnight
In 1999 a gas explosion at a council block in south London led to it being demolished.
It was rebuilt as private housing, but now the new residents face huge bills to repair fire safety defects.
One building safety crisis, replaced with another.
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