Property News · February 11, 2021

Government vow to fix cladding crisis unlikely to soothe UK residents


Unless insurers and mortgage firms can be persuaded to relax resistance to risk of low rises, more funds will be needed• UK government faces Tory MPs backlash over fund to fix claddingCalling the cladding crisis a nightmare is more than just a metaphor. A survey of the mental health of affected residents in May 2020 found seven out of 10 had trouble sleeping. The fear of a repeat of the Grenfell fire, an unsellable home, and ever rising repair bills exceeding £100,000 in some cases is enough to ruin anyone’s dreams.It has been made worse by the way months turned into years as successive housing secretaries promised to fix the problem, while leaving it unfixed. Part of the difficulty that Sajid Javid, James Brokenshire and Robert Jenrick faced was grasping the scale of what they were dealing with. Continue reading…

Source : theguardian.com
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