End Our Cladding Scandal

Question for
@matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social

How many shared ownership flats have annual service charges exceeding 1% of their value?

Monthly service charge for flat owners beats £200 for first time Freeholders increased charges by 4.6 per cent last year, and by 55.6 per cent over the decade, according to analysis by Hamptons

🔗 The Times

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❗37% of flats now have annual service charges exceeding 1% of their value, with real consequences for lending.

Nearly 1 in 5 flat sellers sold at a loss in 2025.

Leaseholders are paying the price for soaring insurance premiums and building safety costs.

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Redraft of key cladding methodology ‘does not go far enough’, insurers say Insurers have warned that residents could still be exposed to high premiums even after work completes, due poorly redrafted guidance on cladding remediation.

Labour are still sweeping building safety risks under the carpet to protect industry, while residents remain trapped in unsafe, unsellable homes.

They promised a government-backed reinsurance scheme in opposition but have yet to deliver.
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"The failure was allowing unsafe buildings to be put up in the first place, and then creating years of uncertainty about who pays, how much, and when.

(...) If you can’t price the risk, lenders hesitate, buyers hesitate, insurers reprice, and the market seizes up."

Joshua Robbins, 23, died after falling from his balcony when railings gave way. His mother, Fiona Garrett, said she faced a long fight for answers.

🗨️ "I feel like it's going to end up like a Grenfell situation, where it's constantly passing the buck."

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Today as people spend time with their loved ones, as always we remember ours who were taken from us.

104 months on, and still no Justice for those lost at Grenfell.

Alongside the red hearts you’ll see today, please take a moment to remember the significance of our green one💚

Let down by Labour...
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🏗️ Building safety crisis

Thousands of shared owners are still trapped, facing subletting restrictions and no buyback funding for unmortgageable flats.

Read the full update from
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#BuildingSafetyCrisis

Thousands of people trapped in dangerous homes as Grenfell survivor makes plea More than 275,000 people could be living in homes with dangerous cladding - as a survivor of the Grenfell Tower fire has warned Labour is failing those who died in the 2017 tragedy

Grenfell survivor Ed Daffarn criticised Steve Reed MP for focusing on building 1.5million homes.

🗨️“It's a stain on this government that people are still not living in safe buildings. They need to go faster.”

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Campaign Update - End Our Cladding Scandal Since Labour came to power promising “change” in July 2024, we have tried to work constructively and in good faith with Ministers and civil servants – repeatedly setting out the range of areas where l...

Promises made, promises not kept.

Our update on the building safety crisis: where we are, and what Labour still needs to change ⬇️

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Leaseholders in Bristol are being ripped off

£250 ground rent cap is step forward but not enough

And I'll be following up with the minister about appalling insurance premiums post cladding-scandal that are stopping some leaseholders moving

But leaseholders also face... 🧵

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Could the UK’s low house price growth be a good thing? Agents are ‘gloomy’ about ‘downbeat’ figures from 2025. Projections for 2026 are ‘boring’. But there is some cause for optimism

❗️Our members regularly accept losses of more than 50% on what they paid for their flat — even after remediation has been completed.

“For the many tens of thousands still waiting for work, it is nigh on impossible to sell at all.”

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Written questions and answers - Written questions, answers and statements - UK Parliament Information from UK Parliament on written questions & answers, written statements and daily reports.

A great question on shared ownership buybacks… and a Government response that completely sidesteps the issue.

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An excellent question from @ruthcadbury.bsky.social

❌ Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social responds… but not to the question asked.

Instead, we get a copy-paste statement that will infuriate many shared owners.

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I expected so much more of a @teamlabouruk.bsky.social government. We’re still stuck in our unsellable, unmortgageable flat in Hackney with no end in sight. #claddingscandal

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❌ Government isn’t monitoring how many shared owners can’t sell or remortgage due to the building safety crisis, points to a 3‑year-old “pledge” few lenders follow, and say they won’t “help” further.

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These are vital questions.

Every day, we receive new emails from shared owners whose lives have been torn apart by the building safety crisis.

🚫 The response from Minister @samanthadixonmp.bsky.social is particularly shocking.

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PAS wars, heat networks as the new cladding crisis and nightclub fires A post-Christmas triple-hander considers PAS 9980, a looming problem of heat network repair and the tragic predictability of nightclub disasters

A national remediation programme that neither makes buildings safe or reduces costs for residents might as well not happen at all

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Inside Housing’s guide to what to look out for in 2026 Inside Housing’s news team talks to experts from across the housing sector to find out what they are looking forward to – and worrying about – as the new year begins.

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Will there be meaningful change on the key issues of non-cladding defects, non-qualifying leaseholders, extortionate buildings insurance or shared ownership buybacks in 2026?

We aren’t holding our breath.

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Ghost flats are becoming Britain’s new housing crisis Thousands of new flats are sitting empty and losing value – why do more luxury towers keep appearing?

"After watching what unfolded after Grenfell, with young people caught in starter homes they can’t sell while facing huge bills, why would anyone in their right mind want to buy a flat in a block?"

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Major fires still a risk under 'spineless' new safety law, construction boss warns David Jones believes it will permit too many risks, but the government calls it a proportionate approach.

❌ Serious fire risks assessed as being "tolerable", homes left half-safe at best.

❌ The Government deflects to industry, flats remain unsellable, leaseholders are still trapped.

The merry-go-round of buck-passing continues.

#BuildingSafetyCrisis

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Is Labour betraying cladding victims to meet its housing targets? By prioritising building houses over building safety, the government is ignoring its own post-Grenfell promises — and putting lives at risk

Despite strong rhetoric in opposition, Labour’s commitment to building safety is increasingly in doubt.

This drift typifies Labour’s approach so far: governing by targets rather than delivering the change voters expected.

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The flat-owners facing £60k bills to upgrade communal boilers Nearly a million leaseholders may be forced to pay thousands to improve heat networks, which are often unreliable and wasteful

Are underperformed heat networks poised to become the next cladding crisis for leaseholders?

New govt rules will require upgrades to tens of thousands of systems... but residents will pay:

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