Liverpool Cladiators

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

2018: 213 homes built by @BouyguesUK for Runnymede Council.

2021: Unsafe cladding identified.

2023: Remediation completed.

2026: Serious internal fire-safety defects uncovered. Leaseholders now face costs up to £10k.

When will you fix this mess, @AngelaRayner @andyburnham ⁉️

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

“It’s like prison.”

Stacey has been unable to sell for eight years, losing five sales because of unsafe cladding.

Even after a reassessment, high ground rent & service charges mean she remains trapped.

She’d now accept £1 to escape.

This is what political failure looks like.

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

We were on BBC Radio London this morning discussing the building safety crisis, why @UKLabour is on course to miss its remediation targets, and what the Government must do next.

Missed it? Listen back 🎧

[Manchester Cladiators @McrCladiators]

Hi @andyburnham - any chance you could ask @AngelaRayner when Labour's 4th building safety minister in 2 years will be confirmed?

It'd be good to know who'll be in charge of fixing this ongoing horror show.

And that it won't keep being deprioritised 🫣

Much obliged, brother.

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

Two years under Labour. A fourth Building Safety Minister due soon.

A Remediation Bill that isn't fit for purpose. More excuses for inaction from senior @mhclg officials. Leaseholders remain trapped.

We'll try to have hope, @andyburnham. But hope only gets you so far.

[Manchester Cladiators @McrCladiators]

"You cannot make people pay for mistakes that are not of their making. Really, it is as simple as that."

Nearly 5 years on, hundreds of thousands of blameless leaseholders still need your help @andyburnham

https://t.co/f85LHZTbyS

[Liverpool Cladiators @LCladiators]

@PeteApps Wow! These people have no shame!

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

A lobbying firm wanted to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. We filmed them undercover, admitting to secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients:

https://t.co/ElhJ102u0C

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

“It’s a matter of basic justice"

"Just free people from this living nightmare... That’s step one”

2️⃣ years of Labour have brought delay, drift and a remediation programme rated RED.

An @andyburnham govt is the last chance for a reset on the building safety crisis. Read more ⬇️

[NonQualifyingLeaseholders @NonQualifyingLH]

“Keeping ppl SAFE is the first responsibility of any Prime Minister… can’t flinch from that..& I don’t.”

Yet two years into Gov 000’s of innocent LH’s still in UNSAFE, unsellable 🏙️, Financial ruin for failures they didn’t cause.
Don’t flinch- DELIVER!
‼️Protect ALL LH’s

[Cladding Victim  @LostInSW19]

@SharedOwnersNet As someone who bought a flat in a block where the HA sold underleases despite holding only a short headlease, and wasn't told about or advised on that headlease by the HA's "approved" solicitor, my question to @mtpennycook is: at what point do we start calling this mis-selling?

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

🚨 The @mhclg remediation programme has been downgraded from AMBER to RED.

Successful delivery now "appears to be unachievable".

Two years in government and @UKLabour is going backwards.

Hundreds of thousands remain trapped in unsafe homes.

And they call this change?

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

“Andy Burnham has supported our campaign since day one, so we’re trying to have hope. But after years of warm words and little decisive action, leaseholders and residents know it’s the hope that gets you in the end.”

https://t.co/00y8YbO2K9

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

“Most leaseholders are burnt out. It’s hard to have any faith that anything is going to change,”

A £208k bill. Nine years fighting. Now more defects, more costs and a year forced out of their homes.

@mhclg still making buildings half safe & forcing innocent leaseholders to pay.

[Liverpool Cladiators @LCladiators]

@RolandBasilides That may be true. But, not in the evening when the air is cooler. Have you ever been trapped in an apartment where you cannot open any windows because of scaffolding?

[Liverpool Cladiators @LCladiators]

This is a serious issue which needs an urgent response from Government and all of those involved in remediation of buildings.
As we are now experiencing another heatwave, the health and safety of residents in these buildings has to be a priority! This cannot be ignored.

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

Overheating in blocks of flats is a problem, but it's worse if you're banned from opening the windows. Blocks undergoing cladding works need some bespoke guidance urgently:

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

While far later than we had hoped, we welcome the recent engagement we have had with the GLA on its Local Remediation Acceleration Plan.

But we remain very concerned that the plan is still focused far more on enforcement than on the people still trapped in this crisis.

🧵

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

Today’s ministerial statement on building safety is a small step forward, but not the fair solution leaseholders need.

No more piecemeal schemes, delays or costs for leaseholders.

Homes must be safe and sellable for everyone.

Our response ⬇️

[🖇️ Links in next post.]

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

The Written Ministerial Statement:

https://t.co/c3YEnRpDss

Our response:

https://t.co/eM8Z0XiuLo

[VirtualVirgil @PhilH23]

Any of my cladding/leasehold followers stuck in a sweltering tower block preferably mid remediation with scaffold up? Today’s the day to kick up a fuss. DMs open