Building

Investigation: how are councils assessing the risks of uPVC cladding in low-rise housing after the Barnet fire?

It’s mid-morning on Thursday 8 June 2023. A fire blazes through a row of four terraced houses on Moss Hall Grove in North Finchley. The London Fire Brigade receives 42 calls about the fire. When 10 ...
London Evening

Barnet Council fears new national cladding crisis as it sounds alarm over UPVC on houses

A north London council has sounded the alarm over what it fears could be a fresh national cladding issue after a probe found UPVC on buildings to be hazardous. Hundreds of Barnet residents face being ...
Building

Fears of fresh crisis as London council finds unsafe plastic cladding on 600 homes

Barnet Council alerts DLUHC to risks posed by timber-frame homes fitted with UPVC panels Barnet Council has discovered that hundreds of its low-rise timber-frame homes were fitted with plastic ...
London Evening

'Inconceivable': Hundreds of Barnet residents face paying up to £23,000 to reclad ex-council homes over fire risk

More than 400 Barnet residents have been told they must pay between £14,000 and £23,000 to replace cladding which the council has identified as a fire risk Barnet residents who have been told their ...
Architects' Journal

Council says 580 homes need £17m of remediation work following cladding fire

Barnet Council in north London is set to spend millions repairing nearly 600 suspected fire-risk homes with low-rise timber frames after four similar properties burned down last summer And the council ...