Zu viele Gebäude bleiben nach der Grenfell-Katastrophe unsicher, warnt Wohnungsbauminister – bei etwa 50 % der Grundstücke mit unsicherer Verkleidung muss noch mit den Arbeiten begonnen werden

>Far too many high and medium-rise buildings are still unsafe after the Grenfell disaster, with dangerous cladding remaining on at least 2,400 blocks, a housing minister has warned.

>Wajid Khan, a Labour peer and housing minister, said on Friday that remediation work has not started at about 50% of properties being monitored for their unsafe cladding.

>The peer told the House of Lords there is a need to “go further, faster” on 2,415 residential buildings over 11 metres in height in England. Figures show that of 4,834 buildings on the register about 30%, or 1,436, have completed remediation. A further 983 have started remediation, leaving a total of 3,398 where the work to make the buildings safe is not yet done.

There is a massive labour shortage as well, these things do take a long time.

Some units they have to “decant” the building aka re-home people whilst the work takes place, we know these accommodations aren’t widely available…. Because boat arrivals take priority.

A lot of insurers excluded these claims outright in 2021/2022 and a lot of architects that specced the cladding are insolvent or don’t have the funds to be sued to pay for it by the principal who bears the blame.
Pusing developers into insolvency isn’t going to get it fixed either.

An example I can give you, a former client of mine tried claiming for cladding on their insurance, insurers declined it at notification as there wasn’t a definitive report, these surveys took fucking ages to get done, by the time it was produced, the policy renewed with an absolute exclusion and insurers said they are out of time with the previous policy and it’s now excluded.

Another, whilst waiting for surveys to be done which took years, had their excess bloated from 250k – 500k – 2m per building, they had 7 buildings so expected to have £14m in cash to cover it.

Remember Gove saying if they don’t do the right thing they’ll foot the costs and go after them directly… It never happened.