Lucy Powell MP received a visit from the Building Safety Minister, Rushanara Ali, who came to Manchester today to visit the Linx Building to hear first hand all the difficulties with remediation works, soaring insurance costs, lack of transparency and more.
People deserve to live in safe and secure homes however the pace of remediation has been unacceptably slow with half of building in Manchester still waiting to be remediated. Those responsible need to need to get the job on of making sure buildings are safe and to fix their buildings. At the Linx Building, in the Northern Quarter, work is finally getting underway to replace the flats’ unsafe cladding as a part of the Government’s £5 billion Cladding Safety Scheme (CSS).
This Labour Government has set an extremely ambitious target for all high rises over 11 metres to be remediated by 2029 by speeding up the process and preventing the buck passing between manufacturers, freeholders, developers and organisations. The Government will not hesitate to take building owners to court if they fail to act.