A high-rise fire killed Catherine. The cladding firm kept on selling A London inferno 16 years ago killed Catherine Hickman and five others. Now a Sunday Times investigation raises serious questions about materials used on the flats

The Grenfell inquiry told us how three manufacturers lied.

Today's revelations in @thetimes.com spell out how misleading marketing was not limited to three bad actors.

The cladding and building safety crisis is becoming Britain’s biggest corporate scandal.

www.thetimes.com/life-style/p...

📊 17 additional buildings over 11m with unsafe cladding identified in March 2025.

🔎 Still no data on other life-critical fire safety defects.

🔎 Still no data on buildings under 11m.

MHCLG's partial monthly data release 👉 gov.uk/government/p...

👀 FTT said "that the figure for fire doors would be included in the RCO because of the serious relevant defects in relation to the building and with the fire doors, even though some of the fire door problems may relate to ‘wear and tear’ (and therefore these aspects would not be ‘relevant defects’)"

Grenfell Tower is Still Burning w/ Peter Apps and Anna Stec Podcast Episode · Red Medicine · 11/02/2025 · 1h 6m

Really good to talk about Grenfell and the ongoing health impacts with Anna Stec on the podcast Red Medicine:

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BSR and MHCLG discuss new unit to enforce cladding remediation The Building Safety Regulator (BSR) and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) are planning a dedicated unit to enforce cladding remediation.

Mr Forster to MHCLG what steps are being taken “to ensure the effectiveness of (a) compliance by contractors&(b) enforcement measures by the new Building Safety Regulator with the Building Safety Act 2022”
@nlc-movement.bsky.social
@eocs-official.bsky.social
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Vista Tower Remediation Contribution Order – Associate Liability

Blog post on recent FTT RCO for £13m + against 76 respondents at Vista Tower. Post looks at associate liability , the 'just and equitable discretion', and relevant defects. @lkpleasehold.bsky.social @eocs-official.bsky.social @nlc-movement.bsky.social
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Update and Call to Action - End Our Cladding Scandal It’s been a busy start to the year and there will be lots going on over the coming months. Please read on for a short update and a call to action on insurance commissions.

🆕 Update

What we told the Public Accounts Committee inquiry into cladding remediation, plus a new call to action about buildings insurance 👇

#BuildingSafetyCrisis
#Insurance #cladding
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Join the Shared Owners' Network - End Our Cladding Scandal The Shared Owners’ Network was created at the end of 2023 by shared owners who met while campaigning for building safety. Since then, the network has grown and members have been busy helping fellow sh...

📢 Are you a shared owner?

The Shared Owners’ Network has been working alongside our team for over a year, focusing on the range of issues shared owners face.

Membership is open to all current and former shared owners.

Join them 👇

#SharedOwnership

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The #NLCElf never stops raising awareness.

NLC ELF IS KNOCKING ON THE DOOR 🚪 RINGING THE BELL 🔔

#leaseholdScandal #Trapped #Leasehold #HousingCrisis @cathnlc.bsky.social @lkpleasehold.bsky.social

I've created a Bluesky feed for building safety / cladding / leasehold issues. This is my first feed using hashtags, so hopefully it works.
#BuildingSafetyCrisis #EndOurCladdingScandal #Grenfell #FreeLeaseholders

bsky.app/profile/bigb...
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#BuildingSafetyCrisis #EndOurCladdingScandal

Cladding, mould, £75,000 charges – welcome to life in a British leasehold flat Residents of a blighted London block have been trapped in their homes by a swirl of events, as government attempts to reform the law drag on

A full house of leasehold horrors in this building. Dangerous cladding, internal leaks, dodgy speculative freeholder going for permitted development (but now bust), opaque service charges, delayed remedial works…

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

BBC Breakfast: It's destroyed my life: Uncapped costs to fix non-cladding safety defects (22/12/24) YouTube video by End Our Cladding Scandal

🗨️ "It had taken over her life"

Amanda Walker's mother Glenda spoke to BBC journalist Phil Hendry about the impact the building safety crisis had on her daughter 💔

#BBCbreakfast #BuildingSafetyCrisis

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Amanda Walker waged war on dangerous cladding. Then she was found dead The 51-year-old felt trapped in an apartment she couldn't sell because of its flammable cladding.

Glenda(mum)thinks Amanda.... started drinking to deal with the anxiety of having to face unaffordable bills to fix the cladding, running into the tens of thousands
The #leasehold gift that keeps on.....taking 😥
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

All leaseholders want this Xmas is the LFRA turning on💡

If #NLCElves were in charge, the Leasehold & Freehold Reform Act would be switched on this Xmas.

Instead, another year of being TRAPPED, EXPLOITED AND BULLIED 😡

#LeaseholdScandal #NLCElf #Leasehold #HousingCrisis @lkpleasehold.bsky.social

Cost for a heart transplant in the USA.

When private Healthcare comes to the UK, are you going bankrupt?

Or are you dying?

Advent calendar anyone?
I've begun my annual pilgrimage to 24 December, with two really useful cases.
@liamspender.bsky.social - I hope that I have given a good (if very summary) account of your case.
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Radical action to speed up removal of unsafe cladding announced The government will set out tough new targets to fix unsafe buildings.

The links to the now published detailed acceleration Plans (The RAP & the JAP) are in this press release for any leaseholders who haven’t yet found them: www.gov.uk/government/n...

Our statement ahead of the general debate on 2nd December and Labour’s Remediation Acceleration Plan - End Our Cladding Scandal There will be a general debate on the Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Report in the House of Commons on Monday 2nd December following the MHCLG questions session at 2:30pm that day.

Statement from the End Our Cladding Scandal team ahead of the #Grenfell Tower Inquiry Phase 2 Report debate on Monday.

endourcladdingscandal.org/building-saf...

Tired of spending every weekend working for free, reading, writing emails, filling out consultations, to fix the potentially criminal negligence of the construction industry & MHCLG.
How do we bring these people to justice?
#BuildingSafetyCrisis

London MPs demand housing managing firm boss explains 'poor' service to leaseholders London MPs have demanded the boss of England's largest housing managing firm explain the alleged "poor" service it provides to some leaseholders while “aggressively” increasing charges.

FirstPort managing agents will have some tough questions to answer if the Government agrees to this.
#leasehold #scandal

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Discussions with MHCLG on affordability of the shared ownership scheme for existing shared owners - a Freedom of Information request to Greater London Authority Please share information about discussions, emails or read-outs of meetings between the GLA and MHCLG where findings and/or recommendations in the House of Commons Committee for Levelling-Up, Housing ...

This is the FOI request. It's an eye-opener 👇
www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/disc...

Internal emails reveal MHCLG ‘taken aback’ and Homes England ‘unimpressed’ by critical shared ownership inquiry report The government’s housing department and Homes England were left “taken aback” and “unimpressed” by an MP-led inquiry into shared ownership

I spotted this FOI on #whatdotheyknow a few days ago. Great to see it covered in Inside Housing.

The Select Committee report on shared ownership was damning.

❌ Not impressed with MHCLG, GLA & Homes England officials.

www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/interna...

Hurrah, Amanda Gourlay @lawandlease.bsky.social is here. A serious expert on residential leasehold law and issues.

Last week I ran the first part of my 2024 case law round up on #buildingsafety. I'm sharing the materials on here. The link is live until 25 Nov: web.tresorit.com/l/iutvs#SrzN....
Part 2 of the round up is on 18 December. lawandlease.substack.com/p/the-2024-c.... Do please join me.

Seeking my fellow #BuildingSafetyCrisis #Cladding survivors here. My first post, one of the many beautiful views from my beloved flat, my home.