#Cladding

The UK is clearly in decline. Many ordinary people are being charged ruinous sums of money for in-person patrols by fire wardens due to risks from flammable cladding, installed by
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The End Our Cladding Scandal campaign has been pushing the idea of a levy since November 2019. As recently as June, ministers were completely ruling it out.So this is a
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Tonight we bring you the staggering numbers released by 2 of the largest housing firms Wimpey Taylor and Persimmon. #CladdingScandal #EndOurCladdingScandal THREAD: First a reminder of the estimated £3.5 billion
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For those unaffected by the #CladdingScandal, it may be difficult to get a picture of how this is affecting people. So I thought I would go through my inbox and
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EWS newsThis is really significant news for anyone currently caught up in the cladding scandal. @RICS the body that created the EWS form has put forward new guidance for buildings
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Lunchtime update from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry:- Govt officials warned about use of Kingspan insulation on high rises in 2014- Kingspan accused of "lying" to them about testing which had
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Time for some facts about building safety in the UK, as there's a lot of misconceptions in the media:1. Just 5% of dangerous cladding is ACM2. Cladding is only one
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But then it changed the chemical composition of the product in 2006 and retested. This time the result - in the words of a Kingspan employee - was "a raging
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My life turned upside down in 2013 when I made the worst decision of my life - to buy a #leasehold home in #SouthKilburn regeneration trusting propaganda by @Brent_Council about
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Having had a bit of time to reflect on this I think it's worth running through the role of Arconic in a bit more detail. They are the huge Pennsylvania
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MHCLG has its own engineers, advisors & experts, & I’ve generally found them to be knowledgeable, polite and responsive. Among the things they lack however, and where Hackitt really didn’t
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A lot of noise that Labour aren't being proactive and are indistinguishable from the Tories, so let's take a look to see whether that is really true (Thread) https://labour.org.uk/press/labour-calls-on-the-government-to-adopt-plan-
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Oh good, @RishiSunak's bounce-back loans scheme on the news. It is so riddled with holes that up to £30bn of the £40bn he handed out was to criminals making fraudulent
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Has your MP refused to sign the McPartland/Smith amendment to the Fire Safety Bill?Here are things you can do: Write back to your MP and ask them to discuss
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[thread] I'm going to briefly explain my issue with saying there's a "mental health crisis" in this pandemic. Psychology talk is often a convenient means of sucking out the politics
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Amid a flurry of coverage of the misery being caused by the cladding scandal this week, I think it's worth explaining that this problem comes from 30 years of building
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