cladding victim in Liverpool and fighting for survival
Liverpool, England
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Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
£1m 'down the drain' as danger flats set to close bbc.in/45bJNzr
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
📢 Our statement on today's (quietly slipped out) Remediation Acceleration Plan update 👇🏽
ALT Screenshot of our statement. It will be available on our website shortly.
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
Just when you thought it might be nearly over - and that someone was doing their job properly during the initial surveyS at our building. We have to go through it all again. Letter received yesterday #buildingsafetycrisis #endourcladdingscandal
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
📊 17 additional buildings over 11m with unsafe cladding identified in March 2025.
🔎 Still no data on other life-critical fire safety defects.
🔎 Still no data on buildings under 11m.
@mhclg's partial monthly data release 👉gov.uk/government/publicatio…
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
🗣️"Part of the problem seems to be that the deregulation of the building industry has meant that those bad actors who cut corners have been getting away with it for far too long and it’s just become how they operate."
@AlexJJNorris what's the plan?
yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/cla…
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
🔴 We strongly welcome the Public Accounts Committee Report on Remediation of Dangerous Cladding.
We thank the @CommonsPAC Chair & members for shining a light on the Govt's failure to tackle this crisis.
Our statement 👇
@AngelaRayner @AlexJJNorris
endourcladdingscandal.org/po…
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
Cladding removal plan not ambitious enough, say MPs bbc.in/4inF9Tn
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
📺 The evacuated residents of Sundowner Ct. in Southampton have been told the building could have collapsed in a fire because the steel structure wasn't fireproofed
As @mhclg knows, internal building defects can also be life-critical. #NotJustCladding
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youtu.be/FD7dTFODwlU
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
I can't survive the pressure I'm under
I've been bullied into court by my warranty provider and if I lose I'm liable for costs
@Keir_Starmer's office is pushing paper whilst @AngelaRayner "monitors the situation" yet demonstrably misunderstands it
I just wanted a home😢
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
The building safety scandal was caused by decades of systemic negligence, incompetence & deception, by government & industry.
Can @AlexJJNorris explain to Tom, Martin, Suzy & Colin why ordinary people have been left to face bankruptcy?👇
@NonQualifyingLH
bbc.com/news/articles/c14n6n…
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
Recent revelations about fire risk assessor Adam Kiziak have been making headlines.
But we can now reveal government was warned about his work two years before he was removed from their official panel:
insidehousing.co.uk/news/exc…
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
"According to Liam Spender, a solicitor leading a proposed class action lawsuit against freeholders to recover “secret” commissions, these payments over the past three years may be as high as £480 million, with hundreds of thousands of flats affected."
thetimes.com/business-money/…
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
.@FirstPortUK suspended from its own trade body @tpi_online That's one of the biggest leasehold managers with portfolio of 'fleecehold' estates, too. @mtpennycook @NeilDotObrien @DavidPintoD leaseholdknowledge.com/first…
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
Very welcome news.
The issue with FirstPort (more LastPort) is cultural. It was apparent when I cross-examined them during our FTT dispute that FirstPort senior management simply do not care about the service they provide. They have no concept of fiduciary duty; what it means to be responsible for leaseholder money.
Their principal aim is to buy up as many smaller manging agents as possible and to take as much from leaseholders as possible to service their colossal corporate debts.
Until that culture changes -- which is in part to be achieved by rebalancing the law in favour of leaseholders -- nothing else will change.
Leaseholders in Hendon are being made to feel like cash cows by managing agents who hike service charges but provide poor service in return.
FirstPort are the country’s largest management agent, and one of the worst offenders.
Today, I chaired a meeting between dozens of Labour MPs and the Managing Director of FirstPort to hold their feet to the fire and demand they change 👇
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
Out of all of the blocks I have reported on as a journalist, the experiences of leaseholders at Mar House have to be up there as the worst.
Here's my investigation of the residents whose homeowning dream, soon turned into a leasehold nightmare google.com/amp/s/amp.theguar…
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
🗨️ "It had taken over her life"
Amanda Walker's mother Glenda spoke to BBC journalist Phil Hendry about the impact the building safety crisis had on her daughter 💔
#BBCbreakfast #BuildingSafetyCrisis
youtu.be/eiTU62hRHF4?si=u0bi…
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
📢 @UKLabour has announced its Cladding Remediation Acceleration Plan.
The "plan" looks extremely disappointing. Innocent leaseholders and residents across the country need and deserve much more.
Our statement 👇🏼
#EndOurCladdingScandal
ALT A screenshot of our statement on Labour's Remediation Acceleration Plan. We think the Remediation Acceleration Plan is extremely disappointing and the proposals will only make a horribly complicated process worse with further layers of bureaucracy. We will publish the full statement on our website shortly.
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
Following on from last week's announcement, the government has this morning opened a consultation on banning secret insurance commissions:
gov.uk/government/consultati…
It is open until 24 February 2025.
New rules expected to be in effect during 2025.
1/20 #leaseholdreform
Government timetable to make commonhold default tenure for new flats by 2029.
But technical issues mean delay to implementing new lease extension provisions.
New valuation rules to be consulted on next summer.
Full statement: questions-statements.parliam…
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
🗣️ “There is still far too much uncertainty. Severe penalties will be meaningless without leaseholders and residents knowing for sure when homes will be made fully safe.
“This ‘plan’ will do little to change that.”
#NotJustCladding
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independent.co.uk/business/l…
Sarah 🦐🦐🦐 retweeted
Residents in buildings under 11 metres with unsafe cladding have been charged over £50,000 for fire safety repairs
@k_petrakos reports
🔗 trib.al/nbywRRM
ALT Text: ‘We’re trapped in our flat by cladding – it’s 2m too small for government help’