Combustible Cladding: Repair Bill and Rows Rumble

combustible cladding: Only 10 of the 173 private buildings discovered with combustible cladding have been fixed while rows rumble on over who should foot a repair bill expected to rise well beyond 500m, according to The Guardian. In isolated cases, freeholders and developers have offered to pay, but far more often they are refusing and, 20 months after the Grenfell Tower fire claimed 72 lives, are defying the housing secretary, James Brokenshire, who insists it is their responsibility. Amid growing anger that too little is being done to guarantee the safety of tens of thousands of people living in private flats, leaseholders in London, Leeds, Sheffield and Manchester have established the UK Cladding Action Group. The launch of the national campaign reflects a sharp contrast in how private and social housing is being fixed. Of the affected council and housing association blocks, 79% have works under way or have been fixed compared with 11% of the private towers, according to figures published last week. Similar cladding to that which helped spread the fire at Grenfell has been used on 433 high-rise residential and public buildings in England. (news.financializer.com). As reported in the news.