1/6 Fire-risk bills of £100,000 per flat - much bigger than government policy has factored in - are landing on doormats as ministers plan loans for leaseholders #EndOurCladdingScandal thetimes.co.uk/article/hidden…
2/6 New @ARMAleasehold figures show average remediation bill is £50k per flat, of which flat owners must pay more than HALF for defects that breached building rules at the time but fall outside govt funds. This will add fuel to calls for developer levies thetimes.co.uk/article/hidden… 
3/6 @thesundaytimes p4: 'Useless' fire wardens doubled in a year to 766 waking watches, costing leaseholders £174m a year, yet officials behind guidance that brought the patrols in admit they had no evidence it works - FOI @Labour4Housing @petermengerink thetimes.co.uk/article/flat-o…
4/6 “I’m so tired” - junior doctor cladding campaigner @willmartin88 came home from the frontline of the pandemic to find that half his £100,000 bill to fix fire risks at his Sheffield flat will not be covered by government funds — leaving him liable for £52,000
5/6 Update on cladding gag: @team_greenhalgh says “There is nothing in the agreements . . . which curtails the freedom of applicants, nor of individual leaseholders, to comment on building safety matters to the press"... thetimes.co.uk/article/hidden…
6/6. ... but the clause is still in both govt's cladding fund agreements. It binds entity applying (ie leaseholder directors of resident companies, managing agents and freeholders) from speaking to press. @gtomlin @CommonsHCLG's Clive Betts condemned gag thetimes.co.uk/article/hidden…
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