{"id":124183,"date":"2022-01-11T02:18:02","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T19:18:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-guardian-view-on-the-cladding-scandal-businesses-must-pay-editorial\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T03:13:48","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:13:48","slug":"the-guardian-view-on-the-cladding-scandal-businesses-must-pay-editorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-guardian-view-on-the-cladding-scandal-businesses-must-pay-editorial\/","title":{"rendered":"The Guardian view on the cladding scandal: businesses must pay | Editorial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#013;<br \/>\nThe Tories\u2019 relationship with their donors will be tested if flat dwellers are to benefitThe tragedy of the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in west London has revealed a housebuilding industry corrupted by a profits-first and anti-regulation ideology. Property developers and speculators cannot be saddled with all the blame for this. It was a project of successive governments, and notably that led by David Cameron, to remove rules that they saw as making life unnecessarily difficult for construction businesses. The dysfunctional system that led to 72 people losing their lives included failures of housing management and safety culture as well as the inappropriate use of flammable cladding. Continue reading&#8230;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource : theguardian.com&#013;<br \/>\nRead more&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/commentisfree\/2022\/jan\/10\/the-guardian-view-on-the-cladding-scandal-businesses-must-pay\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Guardian view on the cladding scandal: businesses must pay | Editorial<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#013; The Tories\u2019 relationship with their donors will be tested if flat dwellers are to benefitThe&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124183","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-property-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p75ss1-wiX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":120139,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/the-guardian-view-on-the-cladding-scandal-rip-off-panels-not-people-editorial\/","url_meta":{"origin":124183,"position":0},"title":"The Guardian view on the cladding scandal: rip off panels, not people | Editorial","date":"February 3, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Ordinary leaseholders must not be expected to pay the price for decades of failed housing regulation It is not known exactly how many people live in buildings in the UK that are unsafe due to either the type of cladding fitted to their outsides, or other fire-safety breaches, such\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":124177,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uk-governments-plan-wont-fix-cladding-scandal\/","url_meta":{"origin":124183,"position":1},"title":"UK government\u2019s plan won\u2019t fix cladding scandal","date":"January 10, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"\r It is right that leaseholders should not pay but the scope of the crisis remains unclear four-and-a-half years after Grenfell\r \r Source : ft.com\r Read more...UK government\u2019s plan won\u2019t fix cladding scandal","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":134574,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/little-help-for-victims-of-cladding-scandal-letter\/","url_meta":{"origin":124183,"position":2},"title":"Little help for victims of cladding scandal | Letter","date":"February 20, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Government inaction continues to cost leaseholders dear, says Lynne Hamshaw, whose daughter\u2019s building insurance premium has gone up by 1,000%Thank you so much for your editorial on the seemingly forgotten cladding scandal (5 February). Apart from the fear of living in a flammable building, there is also the endless\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":135882,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/were-trapped-by-the-cladding-scandal-and-cant-find-a-way-out\/","url_meta":{"origin":124183,"position":3},"title":"We\u2019re trapped by the cladding scandal and can\u2019t find a way out","date":"April 12, 2023","format":false,"excerpt":"\r We urgently need to sell, but our block is exempt from the government schemeI am one of many residents caught up in the cladding scandal in the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy. I share ownership of my flat with housing association L&Q, which took nearly four years to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":120041,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/in-the-dark-millions-left-in-flats-they-cant-sell-or-fix-due-to-unsafe-cladding\/","url_meta":{"origin":124183,"position":4},"title":"&#039;In the dark&#039;: millions left in flats they can&#039;t sell or fix due to unsafe cladding","date":"February 2, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r As politicians call for action on the cladding scandal, three people living in unsafe homes share their storiesUp to 11 million people may live in properties with unsafe cladding, an issue that came to prominence with the tragedy at Grenfell Tower in June 2017.Many of those who own affected\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":120282,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uk-ministers-to-announce-billions-in-extra-support-for-cladding-removal\/","url_meta":{"origin":124183,"position":5},"title":"UK ministers to announce billions in extra support for cladding removal","date":"February 10, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"\r Measures under consideration include a \u00a35bn grant for leaseholders and \u00a32bn levy on developersMinisters are poised to announce billions of pounds in extra support to address the cladding crisis that has left homeowners bankrupt and distraught, though key questions remain over how much leaseholders will be expected to contribute.Robert\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Property News&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]}],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124183"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124183"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124183\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124183"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124183"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124183"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}