High Rise Flats: Insulation

(asked on 2nd May 2019) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether his officials have been in contact with the freeholder of the Paddington Walk development about the payment by leaseholders of £3.5 million for cladding removal.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 9th May 2019

On 9 May the Government announced a fund for the remediation of unsafe Aluminium Composite Material cladding on all high-rise (over 18 metres) residential private sector buildings in England, excluding those which have had a warranty claim accepted. Where leaseholders have had to pay for remediation, the building owner or the managing agent on their behalf would be eligible to apply to the fund for a refund for those costs that would qualify under the terms of the fund. In this scenario, any funding agreement will contain a condition that ensures that funding is provided only on the basis that leaseholders are fully reimbursed. We will write to all potential fund applicants by the middle of May to start engaging them, and publish the full fund application guidance and criteria by mid-July.

In the meantime, my officials have been in contact with the managing agents for Paddington Walk. They are also in regular contact with the London Borough of Westminster.

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