Cheaper to rebuild a quarter of dangerous flats than to make them safe
Cladding works can eradicate 80pc of the value of home as leaseholders battle developers to take on the burden
5 June 2021 • 5:00am
Rise in material costs and looming deadline to start work to qualify for Government support has made things difficult for leaseholders
Sharply rising material costs, a shortage of labour and the fast-approaching deadline for works to begin in order to receive government money have created an acute bottleneck, pushing remediation costs even higher.
Robert Frazer, 34, lives in Transport House in Salford, which requires an estimated £3m of remedial work. This is equivalent to a charge of £97,000 per flat.
Salford apartment owners hit with £100,000 bills to make homes fire safe
MP fighting for residents in Westminster
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Owners of apartments in a Salford block have been told they must each pay more than £100K for the building to be made safe from fire.
COUNCILLORS have rejected plans to add a launderette onto the end of a Co-op service station. The 24-hour launderette was proposed by applicant TG Convenience Stores for the service station in Marske Road, Saltburn, with the plans also including an external chiller. Claire Griffiths, Redcar and Cleveland Council’s development services manager, said it would be on the end of the building as a standalone structure and not accessed from inside the Co-op. But members of the council’s regulatory committee were bemused by the proposal. Councillor Cliff Foggo said: “It is not an appropriate place to have a launderette. It will be visible from the highway and from other residential properties around.
A CONTROVERSIAL housing development is getting bigger in a move described by one councillor as “adding insult to injury”. An extra 36 new homes will be added to the Woodcross Gate housing development off Flatts Lane, Normanby. Redcar and Cleveland Council gave permission in October 2019 for 400 new properties to be built by developer Miller Homes. The local authority had previously rejected the proposed development, but was overruled following a successful appeal by investment company Theakston Estates to the Government’s Planning Inspectorate. Miller Homes sought to amend part of the site layout and change the house types being built under phase two of construction and has now been successful with a fresh planning application.
A CONTROVERSIAL housing development is getting bigger in a move described by one councillor as “adding insult to injury”. An extra 36 new homes will be added to the Woodcross Gate housing development off Flatts Lane, Normanby. Redcar and Cleveland Council gave permission in October 2019 for 400 new properties to be built by developer Miller Homes. The local authority had previously rejected the proposed development, but was overruled following a successful appeal by investment company Theakston Estates to the Government’s Planning Inspectorate. Miller Homes sought to amend part of the site layout and change the house types being built under phase two of construction and has now been successful with a fresh planning application.