{"id":134574,"date":"2023-02-20T00:11:09","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T17:11:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/little-help-for-victims-of-cladding-scandal-letter\/"},"modified":"2023-02-20T00:29:32","modified_gmt":"2023-02-19T17:29:32","slug":"little-help-for-victims-of-cladding-scandal-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/little-help-for-victims-of-cladding-scandal-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Little help for victims of cladding scandal | Letter"},"content":{"rendered":"


\nGovernment 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 financial rip-off of paying increased building insurance. My daughter\u2019s building insurance premium has risen 1,000%. The government has done little to help apart from talk to the insurance industry, while continuing to enjoy a bonanza in insurance premium tax, generated from leaseholders\u2019 pockets.As for the few buildings that have been fixed, during remediation work lasting many months families will have been living in freezing flats with all insulation removed and natural daylight blocked off, on what is in effect a building site. Continue reading…
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\nSource : theguardian.com
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Government inaction continues to cost leaseholders dear, says Lynne Hamshaw, whose daughter\u2019s building insurance premium...<\/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-134574","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-z0y","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":124177,"url":"https:\/\/www.siamlandbank.com\/propertynews\/property-news\/uk-governments-plan-wont-fix-cladding-scandal\/","url_meta":{"origin":134574,"position":0},"title":"UK government\u2019s plan won\u2019t fix cladding scandal","date":"January 10, 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