No. 10 must act on cladding crisis
We call on the government to support leaseholders living in high-rise private buildings who are facing substantial retrospective costs to replace unsafe cladding. No leaseholder should suffer anxiety, facing costs well beyond their ability to pay. Remedial work on these buildings may cost a total of £15bn — nearly 10 times the funds now available. It is estimated 1.5 million flats are unmortgageable, trapping about 3.6 million people in potentially dangerous, unsellable housing.
The government has the responsibility and resources to rescue the living victims of the cladding scandal. Everyone seems to be at fault except those now lumbered with impossible costs.
The government must accurately assess liability for safety remediation costs — which should not fall on the end user, the leaseholder, because of defective legislation. It is time to settle on simple, effective ways at once to remove and replace products that still endanger residents and to end the cladding remediation crisis.
Sir Peter Bottomley MP
Justin Madders MP
Sir Edward Davey MP
Diane Abbott MP
Sir David Amess MP
Caroline Ansell MP
John Baron MP
Hillary Benn MP
Crispin Blunt MP
Kevin Brennan MP
Ruth Cadbury MP
Christopher Chope MP
Elliot Colburn MP
Damian Collins MP
Daisy Cooper MP
Janet Daby MP
Allan Dorans MP
Maria Eagle MP
Florence Eshalomi MP
Barry Gardiner MP
Lilian Greenwood MP
Hillary Benn MP
Tom Hunt MP
Kim Johnson MP
Sir Edward Leigh MP
Clive Lewis MP
Rebecca Long-Bailey MP
Caroline Lucas, MP
Tony Lloyd MP
Mark Logan MP
Sir Robert Neill MP
Caroline Nokes MP
Stephen McPartland MP
Ian Mearns MP
Layla Moran MP
Stephen Morgan MP
Sarah Olney MP
Andrew Rosindell MP
Andrew Selous MP
Tommy Sheppard MP
Andrew Slaughter MP
Royston Smith MP
Mark Tami MP
Derek Twigg MP
Dr Phillipa Whitford MP
Baroness Andrews
Lord Bird
Lord Blencathra
Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle
Lord Best
Lord Curry of Kirkharle
Baroness Deech
Lord German
Lord Grade of Yarmouth
Baroness Finlay of Llandaff
Lord Shinkwin
Paul Bayes, Bishop of Liverpool
Bob Bessell, chairman, Retirement Security Limited
Professor Susan Bright, Oxford University
Lucy Miranda, partner, Brown of Avonwick Group
Andrew Bulmer, chief executive, Institute of Residential Property Management
Adrian Calver, Red Rock Estate and Property Management
Oliver Conway, Oliver Fisher solicitors
Rawdon Crozier, barrister, KBG Chambers
Tim Darwall-Smith, director, Property Management Services
Sarah Dedekis, Bath Leasehold Management
James McDermott, Zenith Management Limited
Andrew Dismore, chair, London, Assembly Fire, Resilience and Emergency Planning Committee
Andrew Eagerton, Hunters RBM
Jonathan Evans, chief executive, Ash & Lacy Holdings Limited
James Farrar, managing partner, JFM Block & Estate Management
Sarah Fisher, director, MIH Property Management Limited
Craig Forrest, head, MLM Property Management
Sara Grixti, Cluttons
Nigel Glen, chief executive, ARMA
Nigel Howell, chief executive, FirstPort
Pauline Jones, chief executive, Jones Associates
Cherry Jones, director, Home from Home Property Management
Katie Kendrick, founder, National Leasehold, Campaign
Sebastian O’Kelly, chief executive, Leasehold Knowledge Partnership
Michael Mansfield QC
Gary Martin, Letters Group
Joe Mallon, partner, JFM Block & Estate Management
Jonathan Miller, Grace Miller & Co Limited
Steve Nightingale, director, Bloq Management Services Limited
Terri-Jade Peters, MLM Management
Murad Qureshi, chair, London Assembly Housing Committee
Daniel Pollard, managing director, Realty Management Limited
Shula Rich, head, Brighton Hove and District Leaseholders Association
Virtus Robin, director, Mitchell Property Management Limited
Steve Rotheram, Metro Mayor, Liverpool City Region
Gillian Stanley, area property manager, Mainstay Group
James Tarr
Kim Taylor, KT Management Company Limited
Nisha Thomas, Horizon Management
David Walker, Bishop of Manchester
Katie Waters, Smith Waters LLP
Alan Williamson, Regalty Estates Limited
Karen Wilson, director, Property Management
Ritu Saha and Will Martin, UK Cladding Action Group
Giles Grover and Rebecca Fairclough, Manchester Cladiators
Abi Tubis, Leeds Cladding Scandal
Jennifer Reid and Brian Simpson, Birmingham Leaseholder Action Group
Natasha Letchford and Jake Ellis, Southampton Cladding Action Group
Julie Fraser, Liverpool Cladiators
Dave Richards, London Cladding Action Group
Lucie Gutfreund, Homeowners of L & Q
Alex Dickin, Ipswich Cladiators