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Big building firms face a multi-billion-pound levy to help families pay to repair homes with dangerous cladding in the wake of the Grenfell fire. It could a mean a levy on all high rise flats and possibly a separate charge on major developments to atone for building tens of thousands of flats and homes with … Read more
Sales of flats HALVE as housing market is crippled by fire risk fears brought on by Grenfell cladding crisis Flat prices halved amid fears over cladding similar to that on Grenfell Tower In September last year flat transactions also fell by around 5,600, or 48 per cent Earlier was revealed homeowners could face £40,000 bill … Read more
Homeowners yesterday condemned plans to repair their flats with the combustible insulation used on Grenfell Tower. They were shocked to find crates of Kingspan Kooltherm K15 in their car park at the start of works to make their properties safe. The material is at the centre of the inquiry into the Grenfell fire, which cost … Read more
Building firms linked to Britain’s unsafe housing crisis have made more than £15billion in profit since the Grenfell Tower disaster. The astonishing success of major property developers and construction companies has allowed them to pay shareholders dividends of £5billion. The biggest ten firms paid their chief executives an average total salary of £2million in the … Read more
Scotland Yard probes French link to Grenfell fire: Bosses of company that made cladding for the tower block could face criminal charges under cross-Channel probe Employees of the French arm of supplier Arconic have refused to give evidence Claude Wehrle, a fireman who was a technical manager, won’t give evidence Authorities in London and Paris … Read more
A west London charity which supported Grenfell victims has been and remains institutionally racist, a review has found. The Westway Trust has a ‘legacy of institutional racism’ and has failed to ‘understand, identify and address racial disparity’ over the years, a report by the Tutu Foundation concluded. The trust was set up almost 50 years … Read more
Pamela Anderson showed her support for victims of London’s devastating Grenfell fire on Friday, when she shared a snap of herself posing in a commemorative T-shirt. The Canadian, 53, actress took to her Instagram account to share an inspiring message dedicated to the victims of the blaze that killed 72 people in 2017. Posting a … Read more
Tycoons whose firm fitted Grenfell Tower with flammable cladding and ‘stretched the truth’ about tower’s fire safety cash in £123 MILLION shares Directors at Kingspan sold three million shares ahead of the Grenfell hearing The company is accused of selling hazardous building products to contractors Chairman and founder Eugene Murtagh sold shares worth some £76 … Read more
Ex-employee at firm that produced flammable insulation on Grenfell Tower says she wrote ‘WTF’ on fire test report when she first saw it Debbie Berger, former product manager at Celotex, scribbled acronym on report She used it as ‘expression of shock’ when she realised additional materials used Firm used second system pass to erroneously market … Read more
Tories on verge of revolt over failure to fix cladding scandal in wake of Grenfell tragedy Leaseholders facing bills of up to £115,000 each to remove dangerous cladding MPs Stephen McPartland and Royston Smith have attacked Government over it They aim to build support for solutions that will stop leaseholders paying out By Miles Dilworth … Read more