High Rise Flats: Fire Prevention

(asked on 13th April 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, what steps the Government is taking to support leaseholders of tower blocks incurring costs to replace unsafe aluminium composite material cladding installed by local government or housing association freeholders.


Answered by
Dominic Raab Portrait
Dominic Raab
This question was answered on 23rd April 2018

The Secretary of State announced on 4 December that the Department is providing additional funding to the Leasehold Advisory Service (LEASE), an arm’s length-body which provides free initial legal advice to leaseholders, to advise on fire safety issues.

The Government would like to see building owners doing all they can to protect leaseholders from the costs of interim measures and cladding remediation – either by funding it themselves or looking at alternative routes such as insurance claims, warranties or legal action.

The Department is keeping the situation under review.

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