Manchester Cladiators

Supporting Greater Manchester residents with Cladding & other Fire Safety Issues. [email protected]

[Manchester Cladiators @McrCladiators]

Residents' rights to a safe home ignored by @urban_splash for years. Splash now claims their own human rights are being breached.

Funny how rights only matter when it's their £48m bill on the line.

We'll be in the public gallery tomorrow. Justice must be done & seen to be done.

[Financial Times @FT]

Developer to fight £48mn government fire safety bill on human rights grounds https://t.co/0zyYTjsdDX

[Hillsborough Law Now @NowHillsborough]

Our campaign is special. We are not one person, we are for the many by the many. #HillsboroughLawNow team you did this, every one of us has played some part, to every single one of you who has push in any way, big or small. You did this! Congratulations and thank you👏👏👏👏👏🌹

[Hillsborough Law Now @NowHillsborough]

https://t.co/dkYStV9YET

[Mirror Politics @MirrorPolitics]

BREAKING: Hillsborough Law breakthrough in Keir Starmer's last week as intelligence service plan agreed
https://t.co/GfsUabiSMV

[Sophie @SophieLB1]

I'm in the @thetimes today once again talking about my building and the #buildingsafetycrisis. No end in sight. I will continue to shout about this until there's a proper solution to this crisis.

[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.

[Myra Butterworth @MyraButterworth]

Cladding funding has been extended to low-rise buildings under 11 metres - for the first time.
Buildings will be prioritised by risk rather than height.
Government says residents "shouldn't be left worrying about living in homes with dangerous cladding just because their building isn't tall enough to qualify for funding."
But campaigners @EOCS_Official warn the measures risk "giving people hope only to lock them into more years of delay".

[orwellvalley @orwellvalley]

A two-bed flat in my building has just sold at auction for around £78,000. These flats were once worth nearer £130,000 way back. The really sad part is that the previous owner bought it for about £77,000 a few years ago, when it was an absolute bargain at an auction, it had the Section 20 settled and even came with a parking space.

And look at it. She didn’t neglect it. She didn’t treat it as some temporary box. She took real pride in it and made it beautiful. In any normal housing market, you would think buying well, caring for a home, improving it and holding onto it would give you at least some chance of a return. But that is the curse of uncapped leasehold.

A home can be loved, improved and maintained, yet still be dragged down by service charges, major works bills around the corner, legal costs and the permanent uncertainty of what might be demanded next.

This is what people outside the system often miss. Leasehold doesn’t just cost you money month by month. It can poison the value of the home itself. All that care. All that pride. All that effort. This could be mistaken for a posh staycation in Manchester.

And still, the system wins, and leaseholders get nowhere.

[Paul Lewis @paullewismoney]

Only the innocent pay https://t.co/1OlXTSIz31 the developers who built the flats with dangerous cladding and the freeholders who own the building fabric including the cladding have no liability. It is the leaseholders who just rent 100m^3. of space who must pay to replace it

[Hina Bokhari OBE AM 🔶 @HinaBokhariLD]

Co-production isn't consultation after decisions are made. It's regular, meaningful engagement with people affected. Manchester built that into its response through a quarterly residents' forum. London should and could have done better.

[NonQualifyingLeaseholders @NonQualifyingLH]

@EOCS_Official @andyburnham Nailed it @EOCS_Official …

👍 @mhclg a small step for U11m but ltd funds.
“LH’s inc #nonqualifyingLH won’t judge by words like “reform”, “proportionality….

We judge it by outcomes:

👉LH’s finally sell their homes?

👉 ALL LH’s protected?

👉Those responsible finally pay?”

[Manchester Cladiators @McrCladiators]

@EOCS_Official @andyburnham Over to you (soon), Andy...

[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

[Sophie @SophieLB1]

Already 31 degrees in the baby's room. Flat living in this heat is actually dangerous

[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

[Andy Burnham @andyburnham]

Just been in to nominate myself… hopefully third time lucky 😂

[Fire Brigades Union @fbunational]

🚨 NEW: The FBU executive council has unanimously agreed to nominate @andyburnham for Leader of the Labour Party.

[Manchester Cladiators @McrCladiators]

@andyburnham Hello Andy,

Sounds good to us.

We'll keep trying to have hope although, as you know, that isn't easy after the last couple of years.

Look forward to catching up with you (soon...?)

Thank you.

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

There must be formal resident representation on the Joint Remediation Partnership Board, transparent and robust data across all funding schemes, clear escalation routes for all leaseholders and residents, and a single accountable body with the power to grip and end this crisis.