In his building, the cladding will be covered, but he warned of a “looming cost” of other defects.
Mr Jenrick said in his Commons statement that the government’s combined £5bn plan is fair and generous.
He added: “We continue to take a safety-led approach and this funding will focus on the higher-rise buildings where the independent expert advisory panel tells us – time and again – the overwhelming majority of the safety risk lies, in line with the existing building safety fund and the anticipated scope of the new building safety regulator that we’re establishing and will shortly be legislating for.”
“The addition of fire marshals walking down the hallways every 15 minutes is intrusive and distressing.”
Block Management UK Ltd, managing agent for Cardinal Lofts where Alex’s flat is located, previously said it sympathised with leaseholders for having to pay for repairs and the fire marshals, known as a ‘waking watch’.
The owner applied to the Government s building safety fund, open to blocks with both Grenfell-style (ACM) and non-ACM cladding since March 2020.
But in the meantime, flat owners face a £300,000-a-year-bill.
The upper floors of Cardinal Lofts in Ipswich were found to have combustible material by fire experts last October
“The addition of fire marshals walking down the hallways every 15 minutes is intrusive and distressing.”
Block Management UK Ltd, managing agent for Cardinal Lofts where Alex’s flat is located, previously said it sympathised with leaseholders for having to pay for repairs and the fire marshals, known as a ‘waking watch’.
The owner applied to the Government s building safety fund, open to blocks with both Grenfell-style (ACM) and non-ACM cladding since March 2020.
But in the meantime, flat owners face a £300,000-a-year-bill.
The upper floors of Cardinal Lofts in Ipswich were found to have combustible material by fire experts last October