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Michael Gove has finally entered the cladding fray, but the fight isn’t over

someone stepped in to say a word or two about how to fix the cladding crisis. This someone was the Secretary of State for Levelling up, Housing and Communities, Michael Gove. His intervention was met with relief that an issue which has languished on the political bac...

Read    27/01/2022

Industry gives mixed response to new government cladding removal plans

Mary-Anne Bowring, group managing director at Ringley, said: “Leaseholders affected by the cladding crisis living in buildings between 11 and 18 meters have long been taken for granted in the government’s approach to fire safety remediation. The announcement tod...

Read    27/01/2022

Government forces developers to fix cladding crisis: Industry reacts

Secretary of state for levelling up, housing and communities, Michael Gove, has today (10th January), written to the industry giving them a deadline of early March to agree a fully funded plan of action.This includes remediating unsafe cladding on 11-18-metre buildin...

Read    27/01/2022

Predictions for 2022: Brace yourself

Mary-Anne BowringGroup managing director, RingleyThis is proving to be a difficult year for bold predictions; however, some things will continue to be a certainty. The UK’s BTR sector will continue to see waves of institutional investment from large investors as itco...

Read    27/01/2022

'Explosive' growth of single-family housing shows maturity of UK BTR

The bank is no stranger to build to rent (BTR), having made its debut in the sector a few years back with a £118 million loan to finance the construction of Apache Capital and Moda's The Mercian skyscraper in Birmingham. Yet what made the deal with Urban & Civic ...

Read    27/01/2022

Ringley Group Appoints New Head Of Operations

Work by Ringley, which was established in 2019, provides flexible workspaces to growing businesses.The company is committed to the professionals who support its vision – the entrepreneurs, corporations, and free thinkers who value professional, private, space in a co...

Read    22/10/2021

Labour takes aim at buy-to-let at party conference

Powell branded the Conservatives ‘the party of speculators and developers’ compared to Labour’s focus on homeowners and tenants.Powell said: “The Conservatives see housing as a commodity: to be traded, profited from, part of an investment portfolio, a pension pot, no...

Read    22/10/2021

Labour Party pledges to set up building works agency

The Labour Party has pledged to set up a ‘building works agency’ to fund post-Grenfell repairs.Speaking at the Labour Party Conference, Shadow Housing Secretary Lucy Powell said her party has “a plan” to solve the building safety crisis if re-elected.Shadow Chancello...

Read    22/10/2021

Flat owners pin hopes on Gove to fix Britain’s cladding crisis

Upon his appointment as the new Housing Secretary, Michael Gove’s brief was made clear. The former Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster was told that the first and foremost item in his in-tray was the cladding crisis which continues to affect hundreds of thousands of...

Read    22/10/2021

Potential ‘landmines’ in the Fire Safety Act revealed by property expert

New legislation in the form of the Fire Safety Act 2021 [FSA] has introduced fresh rules concerning the inspection of fire doors, requiring regular assessment of external walls, flat front doors, and compartmentation within common parts of buildings.But Mary-Anne Bow...

Read    28/09/2021

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