1/12 Today @thesundaytimes launches a campaign to #EndOurCladdingScandal – Britain’s #hiddenhousingscandal – with Grenfell survivors, trapped residents and @insidehousing @GrenfellUnited @ukcag @McrCladiators @BrumLag @SotonCAG @LeedsCladding #EWS1 thetimes.co.uk/article/carey-…
2/12 Backers of our #EndOurCladdingScandal campaign include Carey Mulligan, Marcus of @MumfordAndSons @KathyBurke @PhilSpencerTV @MrGeorgeClarke @Kevin_McCloud @leilanifarha @SadiqKhan @AndyBurnhamGM @andy4wm @MetroMayorSteve thetimes.co.uk/article/carey-…
3/12 ...and @Shelter @fbunational @RIBA @natfednews @ARMAleasehold @unisontheunion @lordnickbourne @TheLordYoung also back our #EndOurCladdingScandal campaign thetimes.co.uk/article/carey-…
4/12 Not only do 20,000 flats still have Grenfell cladding, but 186,000 in 2,957 towers are still wrapped in other flammable materials & up to 1.5m modern flats could be unmortgageable for years because they can't prove they're safe (my p1 story last week) thetimes.co.uk/article/thousa…
5/12 Now 1st stats show how this is hitting the market. The difference in rate at which flat sales fall through vs houses has more than doubled since govt tightened safety guidance in Jan in response to Grenfell. This is @TwentyCi data of 3m sales (they supply Bank of England)
6/12 Estate agents are turning away as many as a third of flat owners who want to sell. This crisis threatens to reverse the stamp duty boost to the housing market #EndOurCladdingScandal thetimes.co.uk/article/carey-…
7/12 It's affecting other property sales too. @UKFtweets Eric Leenders (bank trade body UK Finance boss) saw his own property’s sale chain collapse: "It was a flat further up the chain in a building that didn’t comply with fire-safety rules” thetimes.co.uk/article/carey-…
8/12 Here is what we are asking for to #EndOurCladdingScandal – Britain’s #hiddenhousingscandal @thesundaytimes @insidehousing @ukcag @GrenfellUnited
9/12 And here are a few reasons why. The Crowley family can't sell their flat in a three-storey block in south London because the building has no #EWS1
10/12 Abi Tubis had saved “every single penny” since she was 14 to buy her first home in 2017. Now she and her husband face a bill of £35,000 to strip flammable high-pressure laminate cladding from their Leeds block @LeedsCladding
11/12 Vickie Pargetter and David Garner's Birmingham building lacks cavity barriers. The govt's £1.6bn cladding fund won't cover that. By the time it's resolved, Vicki, 39, says she will be too old for them to try for a sibling for Blake
12/12 Is your MP backing #EndOurCladdingScandal? Our backers: @PBottomleyMP @MikeAmesburyMP @RLong_Bailey @neill_bob @mtpennycook @Meg_HillierMP @margarethodge @KimJohnsonMP @ShabanaMahmood @liambyrnemp @IanByrneMP @abenaopp @RuthCadbury @ApsanaBegumMP thetimes.co.uk/article/carey-…
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