Uniting Londoners in blocks with combustible cladding & building safety defects. š§ [email protected]
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"The problem came to light during work to prepare building safety cases for the development, when structural engineers raised concerns after reviewing drawings. A site inspection on 21 October confirmed them."
#BuildingSafetyCrisis
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
Evacuated tower residents 'in limbo' over costs ā”ļø bbc.in/4iduc7T
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
MPs debate the Remediation Bill tomorrow.
We've told @AngelaRayner: Labour must take control and make homes fully safe and sellable.
Positive discussions must now lead to real change.
Read our meeting report and call to action. Email your MP today ā¬ļø
endourcladdingscandal.org/poā¦
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
Calum can't sell his flat. An offer Ā£75k below what he paid fell through. Cladding issues and high service charges are factors.
This is the human cost of the building safety crisis. Lives on hold. Choices taken away.
Will Labour get a grip or keep kicking the can down the road?
āI canāt even sell for a Ā£65,000 lossā: The homeowners left trapped trib.al/qkBoeFB
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
Not good enough šš¼
Letting developers mark their own homework
Remediation bill: firms signed up to developer contract exempt, as concern remains about gaps in plans dlvr.āit/TW0bCf #ukhousing
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
āI canāt even sell for a Ā£65,000 lossā: The homeowners left trapped trib.al/qkBoeFB
"The property, built around 20 years ago, has issues with cladding (...) It also has relatively high charges, with Calumās service costs, ground rent and other fees totalling over Ā£4,000 a year."
āI canāt even sell for a Ā£65,000 lossā: The homeowners left trapped trib.al/qkBoeFB
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
Bit of a grim conclusion to the Substack this week. With 50,000 heat deaths across Europe this summer (and more than 1,300 in London) we really need to start taking the risk of hot homes more seriously:
peteapps.substack.com/p/recoā¦
ALT This must change. The reality is that the world has very little intention of seriously or rapidly reducing carbon emissions. Trump continues to treat climate change as a liberal hoax. The likely victory of Flavio Bolsonaro in Brazil will damn what is left of the Amazon rainforest. Closer to home, Andy Burnham boasted of his āpragmatismā this week, as he signed off major new fossil fuel drilling in the North Sea. The world is burning more carbon than ever - and will keep doing so. This means that, hot as it was, the summer of 2026 will have been cooler than many which will come after it. Many more lives will be lost as a result. One of the most terrifying measurements in climate science is wet bulb temperature: which records how hot a thermometer gets when it is covered by a wet cloth. At around 31 degrees under this measure, and certainly by 35, the human body can no longer survive. Even a fit, young adult cannot shed enough heat to control their core temperature, with fatal heatstro
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
No doubt there will now be prolonged finger pointing between developer, managing agent and building control whilst residents remain displaced, and potentially homeless. Still, at least weāll have help to buy back soon!
Emergency evacuation of hundreds from London tower blocks after ādisastrousā crack is found trib.al/dF3jhx2
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
And they wonder why the market collapsed.
Cladding
Latent defects
And, as engineers review their designs against the accepted norm of the last 25 yrs - structural issues: was the design compliant at build. If it was, is that still good enough?
Iām in this situation. A shitshow.
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
The scale of concrete slab issues and other serious structural defects is yet to come to light.
The 18m+ blocks at our site failed their BACs over structural issues and fire safety concerns. If theyāre affected, those of us in mid-rise blocks may well be facing the same issues.
Very worrying. And itās not the first time blocks of flats have had to be decanted due to structural safety concerns.
The building safety crisis is about far more than cladding and fire safety.
@TomCopley, how many Londoners are affected?
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
The "quality" of new build developments in London and across the country is a huge problem affecting our generation seeking to buy their first homes. Defect-ridden flats appear to be everywhere. The housing crisis needs an honest debate on what we build, not how many we build.
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
Statement on the evacuation of residents at Sovereign Tower, Centurion Tower and St Vincent Court, Canning Town
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
Two flat blocks evacuated over structural problems ā”ļø bbc.in/4i3xQTc
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
Emergency evacuation of hundreds from London tower blocks after ādisastrousā crack is found trib.al/dF3jhx2
London Cladding Action Group retweeted
If youāre a shared owner and need guidance on contacting the Public Bill Committee, get in touch:
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ā° The deadline is fast approaching.
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London Cladding Action Group retweeted
A review could inform future policy, but it wouldnāt resolve the urgent problems shared owners face today.
The Bill is an opportunity to act now: we need buyback funding for SO homes that are unmortgageable or unaffordable.
Itās not too late to write to the Bill committee ā¬ļø
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London Cladding Action Group retweeted
The market decides value ultimately. And the market has spoken already. Hence plummeting flat prices due to safety concerns and uncontrollable service charges. Trust in them has collapsed & so prices have dropped accordingly. Speaking out will pressurise government to act.
