Skyline Central 1

Representing residents in Skyline Central 1 who have been asked for up to £25,000 to fix cladding that was installed with defects and inadequate fire breaks

[Skyline Central 1 @SkylineCentral1]

Today we’ve taken the decision to take our Judicial Review case against the Secretary of State to the next level. We’re challenging his decision to exclude us from the fund, leaving us with life changing bills of over £20k each, including £3k VAT. Resident Nathan explains why 👇🏼

[Skyline Central 1 @SkylineCentral1]

Welcome back @michaelgove @luhc Does this include Skyline Central this time? Our freeholder has been shuffling off their responsibility and making us pay for remediation works for nearly 3 years now. #EndOurCladdingScandal

[Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Gov @mhclg]

.@michaelgove makes clear in Parliament that there will be no backsliding on building safety - developers and freeholders must meet their responsibilities and pay for remediation costs 👇

[Manchester Cladiators @McrCladiators]

@luhc @EOCS_Official @michaelgove Sounds great, @michaelgove - As a starting point, do you have a firm deadline for the developer pledges being turned into binding contracts yet, please?

PS Welcome back.

#EndOurCladdingScandal
#NotJustCladding
#BuildingSafetyCrisis

[Skyline Central 1 @SkylineCentral1]

How about leaseholders who have already had to sign up for life changing loans? @michaelgove

[Jack Simpson 💚 @JSimpsonjourno]

The government has laid out plans to extend the Building Safety Levy on all residential new builds of all heights, in a bid to plug the funding gap for buildings over 11m. It is expected to raise £3bn over the next decade. Mine and @luciemheath write-up👇https://t.co/JC9Y2dotMP

[Nick White @nickewhite1983]

My five year journey in the cladding crisis has been emotionally exhausting. A visceral unfairness of being let down.

But the story of @SkylineCentral1 is truly heartbreaking. Penalised for moving too quickly and being told that gov purposely excluded them from accessing funding

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

Skyline Central is a very sad story of the building safety crisis. As we've reported previously, they were pressured into taking loans to pay for cladding removal, and as a result have been barred from relief funding. This was a conscious govt decision

https://t.co/iBzDVNyKX9

[Skyline Central 1 @SkylineCentral1]

Thank you to @JSimpsonjourno and @insidehousing for continuing to tell our heartbreaking story 💔 We only wish that @CommonsLUHC @michaelgove and the many housing ministers before him, stood up for us so much.

Despite saying that leaseholders won’t have to pay, we still are…

[Jack Simpson 💚 @JSimpsonjourno]

Day 2 of my deepdive into the gov’s building safety fund. Today I look at those who have lost out.
A story 👇 and 🧵on the tragic case of those living in the @SkylineCentral1 block. They were barred from the fund before it opened and still continue to be https://t.co/4arJYZ6bgQ

[Skyline Central 1 @SkylineCentral1]

@PeteApps Thanks Pete, we’ll continue to fight… @LucyMPowell would massively appreciate it or you can raise our case again ❤️

[Skyline Central 1 @SkylineCentral1]

“No-one living in a building more than 11 metres tall (or with 5 storeys or more) will have to pay anything for remediating flammable cladding”

Do we cancel our monthly repayments and where can we claim the money back we’ve already had to pay @luhc @michaelgove 🙏

[Rachael Loftus @RachaelLoftus]

There are no warm words that can counteract receiving an actual invoice in my name for over £112k (the first £28k of which I’m supposed to hand over in 25 days time?! )

Leaseholders need ACTUAL protection, in law, immediately.

💔
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
#EndOurCladdingScandal

[Skyline Central 1 @SkylineCentral1]

Let’s be honest, this isn’t the first lie @BorisJohnson.

We’re stuck paying £350 a month. For five years. Why? Because @luhc decided we were ‘too proactive in making our homes safe’.

They said the decision was deliberate…

https://t.co/jG7G1HurQ9 via @MailOnline

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

Building safety crisis doesn’t stop at cladding. There’s still no guarantee that leaseholders will be protected from paying for non-cladding problems. Developers & investors must not be allowed to profit from shoddy, substandard & unsafe housing - end of https://t.co/qi9tVzwmMZ

[Skyline Central 1 @SkylineCentral1]

How about those who have already been forced to sign up to five year loans or lose their homes @team_greenhalgh. Can we still claim?

[Stephen Greenhalgh @team_greenhalgh]

@JollyRodger77 @bradhester @luhc @michaelgove Oliver - I am happy to clarify the status of #leaseholders + put a stop to this nonsense that those who sublet are excluded from our commitment to protect #leaseholders from the #BuildingSafetyCrisis.

[Cladding Victim  @LostInSW19]

There needs to be more clarity on this - we all remember the plight of @SkylineCentral1 leaseholders and the unfairness that they were excluded of the BSF for acting early.

[Skyline Central 1 @SkylineCentral1]

This feels familiar…

Work to make our homes safe started ‘too early’, and as a result, we’re paying £350 a month. For five years. @michaelgove

[Jack Simpson 💚 @JSimpsonjourno]

Good question from Mike Penning on what happens to l'holders who have already paid for remediation. Gove says he can’t compensate those that have already contributed. Again feels like those who (correctly) acted fast and got their buildings fixed first, are going to lose out😔

[Peter Apps @PeteApps]

I too am angry about the Christmas party. But I would honestly like to see some more anger over the fact that the government covered up the risk of dangerous cladding for three decades before Grenfell and still had the audacity this week to pretend it caught them by surprise

[Skyline Central 1 @SkylineCentral1]

The government isn’t willing to do that, but was willing to preside over a shockingly poor building control system which signed thousands of buildings off as ‘safe’.

The result for us? £350 a month, for five years. Fair?

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

"I fought this battle for a couple of years," says former housing secretary Robert Jenrick on who pays to change cladding, "the Treasury... is simply not willing to do that"

Thousands of flat owners are facing large bills to change cladding

https://t.co/nEpLYkOX9M #PoliticsLive

[BBC Politics @BBCPolitics]

"I fought this battle for a couple of years," says former housing secretary Robert Jenrick on who pays to change cladding, "the Treasury... is simply not willing to do that"

Thousands of flat owners are facing large bills to change cladding

https://t.co/nEpLYkOX9M #PoliticsLive

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

Debate on the #BuildingSafetyBill going on now. You can listen here:

#EndOurCladdingScandal

https://t.co/nTDs9ADRWB

[End Our Cladding Scandal @EOCS_Official]

Our letter to @michaelgove about the devastating news of Tom Mansell’s death. “This is not the first letter @luhc has received from us, but it is the saddest. It is also written by campaigners at their very angriest.”

#EndOurCladdingScandal