Accountable too often leads to attempts to dissolve and scraper from responsibility @angelarayner@mtpennycook@andyburnham the residents stay put with a full fist of building safety latent defects.We told @mhclg in 2022, the ties t'wix timber structure & brick work was missing.
Yet more new buildings so unsafe they have to be evacuated in the early hours. The chance of anyone being held accountable? Very slim. If they are, it'll be years of legal battles with very little accountability
Many buildings weren't built correctly in the first place. Why are any innocent leaseholders paying for any historic fire safety defects? The latest Bill proposed by @AngelaRayner and @mhclg doesn't go far enough to help #endourcladdingscandal. 👇🏼 @LBC interview with @AliMirajUK
@NLC_2019@hanrmiller Utterly disgustin, untenable, impoverishing and a complete scam. A system which in 2027 will see an increasing number of leaseholders unable to pay. A brave govt would step in immediately and take control.
👋 @AngelaRayner@mtpennycook@andyburnham
By their own admission, @BarrattRedrow and other major developers have failed to meet their obligations under the Developer Remediation Contract. The data is on https://t.co/EMAOo2RbHK.
What commercial consequences will they face?
The dangers of using PAS9980 for post Grenfell remediations was exposed by @GideonJAmos and @AlPinkerton in parliament and should not be included in the published Remediation Bill.
This guidance due to become law :
- Eliminates the need to check if defects breached building regulations at the time of construction.
- Undermines the Fire Safety Order that needs buildings to be complaint with the Building Regulations to manage fire risk properly.
- It condemns people to permanently high insurance and is rejected by the ABI.
- Allows highly combustible material banned on new buildings to remain on existing buildings (RAQ example).
- Allows completely opposing fire engineering conclusions to both be true.
We must oppose this appalling remediation guidance from becoming law in the Remediation Bill as has now seen published.
@geoffWilkinson@dominicahern@andyburnham@AngelaRayner@LibdemCharlie@KathPinnock
Why don’t flats sell anymore?
The Times highlights soaring service charges and the building safety crisis.
Nearly a decade after Grenfell, mortgage barriers and endless remediation delays continue to destroy lives and livelihoods.
The Remediation Bill will be presented to Parliament today.
We’ll examine the Bill and supporting documents closely. But our serious concerns remain.
Labour must finally get a grip: make every affected home fully safe, protect all residents and leaseholders, and end the harm.
The less spoken, how many #leaseholders have been made bankrupt due to being victims of the #buildingsafetycrisis with corporate Freeholders and their management agents passing on exorbitant costs to default on their responsibility.
Sent my written evidence to the Public Bill Committee this morning, calling for funding to buy back unmortgageable shared ownership flats and convert them to social rent.
The Bill aims to protect social housing stock, yet publicly funded SO flats are sold at auction.
Nobody looking at the volume of these figures among the big six builders can think these are random failures, this is systematic failure of building control and enforcement of building safety standards over probably 20-30 years.
No listed developer met the target to start or complete work on 80% of buildings by July 2026.
@mhclg says, “failure to meet their contractual obligations risks enforcement action, including being prohibited from carrying out major development.”
But consequences there are none.
@UKLabour The message is clear: building more homes has been prioritised over making existing homes safe.
Despite the missed targets, self-reported data and years of delay, there is still no meaningful change in @mhclg's approach.
Warm words. Weak oversight. Unsafe homes.
Have the underlying assessments all been independently audited? How many decisions were overturned? Will residents see the evidence?
Or will @UKLabour ministers continue to let the developers mark their own homework?
❌ Meanwhile, 854 buildings have not started remediation and still have no plan.
Nor is there clarity on the buildings developers claim do not require work.
@EOCS_Official The invisible are the orphaned buildings, where corporate Freeholders assetised Ground rents in a purchasing frenzy. Whilst the original developers and their agents have dissolved. Leaving a tug of war between corporate Freeholders and insurers, with Leaseholders paying costs.
We had to shame @Keir_Starmer into making a TikTok on a ground rent cap back in January. He then went ghostly quiet.
It’s telling that @andyburnham wants to be personally associated with the struggle for leaseholder liberation.
Classic Labour territory: taking on monied interests to redistribute power and wealth.