Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalInside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 30/09/2026dlvr.itRBKC and MHCLG among those to be looked at by CPS over possible Grenfell chargesThe Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea and the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government have revealed that police files on them have been handed to the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to the Grenfell Tower fire 022
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Nearly 10 years after Grenfell, why is Govt still debating how much fire risk residents should tolerate? Leaving flammable cladding in place and non-cladding defects unresolved will not end this crisis. Is it too much to ask that homes are made fully safe and sellable? www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comResidents fear new rules could mean dangerous cladding is left on flatsThe government says it hopes the changes will speed up the process of removing cladding. 085
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalPete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Breaking: the Met Police has submitted charging files to the Crown Prosecution Service resulting from its Grenfell fire investigation. The files cover 54 individuals and 20 companies and cover charges including fraud, misconduct in public office and manslaughter 513970
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026It’s been a distressing time for everyone involved. But the ongoing failure to put residents’ needs first is unacceptable. We raised these concerns with the Building Safety Minister last week, and will be raising them with the Deputy Mayor of London soon. www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/shared-...insidehousing.co.ukShared owner who fled London tower block fire still liable for rent and service chargesShared owners at a London tower block are still liable for rent and service charges for at least a month after a fire forced them from their homes. 074
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 28/09/2026🗨️ “I pay so much for an ‘affordable’ house and I thought I had somewhere safe and secure, but it was never safe.” We’re supporting our members at Neutron Tower. They requested, but were not granted, access to the first meeting after the fire. 🖇️ Link in next post 174
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Today, we met with the Building Safety Minister to raise the challenges facing shared owners trapped in the building safety crisis. 🧵 153
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 24/09/2026We met Baroness Judith Blake, the new Minister for Building Safety, today. We told her plainly: people are still living in unsafe, unsellable homes, facing delays and costs through no fault of their own. They need action now. 1107
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Two shared owners paying a very high price for their landlord’s and the Government’s failure to get a grip on the building safety crisis. ❗Enough is enough, @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social, it's time for buybacks. youtu.be/9zqZ4GtKWTcyoutu.beThreatened With Legal Action... For Complaining Her Building Isn't SafeYouTube video by End Our Cladding Scandal 043
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 20/09/2026🗨️"I keep thinking I'm going to be taken out of this building in a box... I just want someone to take responsibility" Jackie has been desperate to move for years. Now she faces legal threats from her managing agent. #SharedOwnership ⏩ Video in next post 133
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalPete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Overall - it will be a familiar story to anyone who lives in a similar building. Serious questions about the risk of how long it takes us to remediate; the control of interim safety measures and what is really being offered to residents with disabilities in these buildings 084
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalPete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026- Barratts decided to remediate the panels and combustible balcony decking in 2024. A planning application was approved in September 2025. A Gateway application went to the Building Safety Regulator in February this year. It took 31 weeks for the BSR to approve it... 131
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalPete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 17/09/2026More detail about the building in Poplar where a man died in a fire at the weekend: - Building was fitted with combustible Hemsec insulated panels, which were non-compliant at the time of build (oddly described as 'inflammable' by the manufacturer) peteapps.substack.com/p/a-fire-in-...peteapps.substack.comA fire in PoplarA fire at a building awaiting cladding remediation claimed the life of a man at the weekend. What do we know about this blaze, and what do we still need to know? PLUS - thoughts on the new PAS 9980 22221
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalEnd Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 16/09/2026⏳ Labour's new Government brings another – perhaps last – chance to end the drift, take control and finally make homes safe. Can leaseholders dare to hope again? Our latest update ⬇️ endourcladdingscandal.org/posts/a-new-...endourcladdingscandal.orgA new Government, but will building safety finally change? - End Our Cladding ScandalSince 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... 064
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Many of our members are stuck in the building safety crisis. But it doesn’t end when their building is remediated. ❌ Many are still unable to sell afterwards. They’re being told to become private landlords. @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social - we need a nationwide buyback scheme. Now. ⬇️ 043
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalEnd Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The fire and loss of life at Neutron Tower have saddened and angered us. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the man who died, and everyone affected. The fire is being investigated. But we already know residents have endured years of remediation delays. 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comPoplar fire: Residents 'did not hear alarms' in fatal tower blazeResidents say they were alerted by neighbours banging on their doors telling them to leave. 197
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 16/09/2026⏳ Labour's new Government brings another – perhaps last – chance to end the drift, take control and finally make homes safe. Can leaseholders dare to hope again? Our latest update ⬇️ endourcladdingscandal.org/posts/a-new-...endourcladdingscandal.orgA new Government, but will building safety finally change? - End Our Cladding ScandalSince 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... 064
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalGrenfell United @grenfellunited.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Grenfell should have been the moment that made the safety of people in their homes an absolute priority. But nine years later, too many are still living with the consequences of a system that has been far too slow to change. Every delay matters. Promises must become change. 0137
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalGrenfell United @grenfellunited.bsky.social · 14/09/2026111 months since Grenfell. 72 lives lost to systemic failures that should never have happened. This weekend, we watched another high-rise fire unfold in London. Our thoughts are with everyone affected. 1148
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 15/09/2026The fire and loss of life at Neutron Tower have saddened and angered us. Our thoughts are with the family and friends of the man who died, and everyone affected. The fire is being investigated. But we already know residents have endured years of remediation delays. 🧵 www.bbc.com/news/article...bbc.comPoplar fire: Residents 'did not hear alarms' in fatal tower blazeResidents say they were alerted by neighbours banging on their doors telling them to leave. 197
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalPete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026But we do know that this was one of thousands of buildings around the UK where - for a huge range of reasons - known fire risks are allowed to remain unremediated year after year. Eventually there will be fires. 1103
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalPete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 14/09/2026Very upsetting news over the weekend - a man has died following a fire at a building in Poplar. Investigations underway (and will take weeks), but this was a building awaiting cladding remediation work: www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukPoplar fire: Residents 'did not hear alarms' in fatal tower blazeResidents say they were alerted by neighbours banging on their doors telling them to leave. 11316
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 11/09/2026🗨️ @joepowell.bsky.social "Ministers will know about the case of Shaftesbury Place... It has approximately 30 shared ownership flats that have experienced a 21-fold increase in building insurance due to a disputed fire risk assessment." #BuildingSafetyCrisis 043
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026Lord Young of Cookham set the record straight and shone a light on what’s really happening with buybacks. The figures rather speak for themselves. 3/n #SharedOwnership #THCS26 143
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 08/09/2026🗨️ Lord Young of Cookham: “What I want is a nationally agreed formula for buybacks setting out the conditions that need to be met.” We agree. Right now, social landlords make their own rules. Decisions are taken behind closed doors. Some don’t even have a policy. 🧵 1/n #SharedOwnership 143
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 03/09/2026📢 BBC request If you can’t sell your flat because of the building safety crisis and you’re available in London tomorrow afternoon for filming, please email us your contact details. 📧 endourcladdingscandal@gmail.com 043
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 03/09/2026A review of shared ownership? What’s urgent is action for shared owners currently trapped by toxic leases, escalating costs and homes that have become effectively unsaleable. They haven’t seen any of the “improvements” MHCLG refers to in its statement. ⬇️ Time is up. 043
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalEnd Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 26/08/2026🗨️ "I expected fast and urgent action, but I haven’t seen that for the residents of Spectrum - and I haven’t seen that for the country.” Spectrum was the worst residential fire since Grenfell. It should have been another wake-up call. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comTwo years in limbo: the residents still paying mortgages on flats destroyed in east London fireSpectrum Building leaseholders awaiting payouts after freeholder, Arinium, went bankrupt shortly after 2024 blaze 134
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 26/08/2026🗨️ “I don’t want anybody else to go through this. Do not stand in front of my smouldering building saying this is a priority, then fail to follow up on that.” Two years after the Spectrum Building fire, the former residents are still trapped in limbo. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comTwo years in limbo: the residents still paying mortgages on flats destroyed in east London fireSpectrum Building leaseholders awaiting payouts after freeholder, Arinium, went bankrupt shortly after 2024 blaze 144
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalHina Bokhari OBE AM @hinabokharild.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Nine years after Grenfell, disabled Londoners are still telling us they fear being trapped in their homes if there is a fire. New evacuation-plan rules do not cover everyone who needs them. Fire safety cannot depend on an arbitrary building-height threshold. www.mylondon.news/news/zone-1-...mylondon.newsDisabled Londoners in high rises live in fear with no fire evac planThe Grenfell Tower Fire Inquiry recommended that personalised evacuation plans be prepared for disabled residents, but new legislation only applies to buildings over 11 metres tall 066
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 21/08/2026Meanwhile, housing associations such as L&Q refuse to help shared owners struggling with unaffordable service charges, unable to remortgage, or trapped in properties they can’t sell. @natfednews.bsky.social @matthewpennycookmp.bsky.social 🖇️ Link in next post 143
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalSmudge @1smudger.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Agreed. I'm 4+ years into trying to sell a property I don't want. The lack of timelines in the first legislation was negligent. 032
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 17/08/2026Labour's fourth Building Safety Minister in just over two years has finally been confirmed: Baroness Blake of Leeds ⬇️ We look forward to meeting her soon. And we sincerely hope this minister isn't moved on just as she gets up to speed with this extraordinarily complex brief... 154
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalMichael ᚋᚔᚉᚆᚓᚐᚂ @baoigheallain.bsky.social · 15/08/2026Every inspection we have finds new things. The latest was identifying landscaping is a fire risk. 044
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 15/08/2026🗨️ “We thought that was the end of it.” After years of building safety problems and remediation, another inspection found **£7m more work** is needed. This is what an endless building safety crisis looks like. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...inews.co.ukWe're trapped in our leasehold flat – a new nightclub has made our home unliveableThe constant thudding of a bass is making life a misery say residents living in flats near a popular night venue 134
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 10/08/2026"If social providers can’t play by fair rules, then they should be forced to buy homes back to release their tenants from their imprisonment." 🖋️ Lord Fuller in the Telegraph www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/66b31c8...telegraph.co.ukAspiring homeowners’ dreams are being exploited by social landlordsShared ownership has turned the dream of owning your own home into a nightmare 143
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalInside Housing @insidehousing.bsky.social · 05/08/2026dlvr.itHousing associations failing residents ‘face insufficient accountability’ and should face greater punishments, MPs sayHousing associations failing their residents “face insufficient accountability” by complaints processes that “exhaust rather than resolve”, a group of MPs has said 053
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 06/08/2026The Government must act now to help shared owners trapped in homes they cannot sell or remortgage by introducing a national buyback scheme, and by collecting and publishing the data needed to understand the true scale of the shared ownership crisis. 🖇️ Link in next post 134
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalCladding Victim @lostinsw19.bsky.social · 30/07/2026"Despite the cladding now not being an issue, Stacey still cannot sell due to the high ground rent and service charge her flat has." That's exactly what awaits us, because MHCLG ministers work in siloes, passing on the buck. Flats will remain unmortgageable. 012
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 30/07/2026“It’s like prison.” Stacey lost five sales because of unsafe cladding. Even after a reassessment, high ground rent & service charges mean she remains trapped. She’d now accept £1 to escape. This is what political failure looks like. @andyburnham.bsky.social inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...inews.co.ukI've been stuck unable to sell my leasehold flat for eight years - it’s like prisonStacey Lofthouse cannot sell her two-bed home as a result of high service charges and ground rent – she's tried everything 033
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalPete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 22/07/2026In November, a lobbying firm approached me and asked to pay me to write articles critical of the Building Safety Regulator for newspapers. Filmed undercover, their staff admitted secretly paying reporters for copy in British newspapers friendly to their clients: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comLobbying giant filmed offering reporter payment for flattering client coverage in national pressExclusive: Guardian investigation of CT Group uncovers practice that appears to seek hidden influence over public opinion 25460266
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 24/07/2026Thousands of shared owners are trapped in homes they cannot sell or are struggling with unaffordable housing costs. Yet instead of confronting this growing crisis head-on, the government is merely planning to rearrange the deckchairs on the Titanic. 🖇️ Link in next post 133
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalCladding Victim @lostinsw19.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Waiting to hear who they pick as Building Safety Minister. That will tell us all we need to know. 042
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalMarius Kiely @mariuskiely.uk · 23/07/2026Abandoned by #Labour... Eh, @vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social ? #BuildingSafetyCrisis #Trapped 031
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Two years under Labour. Soon, a fourth Building Safety Minister. An unfit-for-purpose Remediation Bill. Excuses from senior MHCLG officials. Leaseholders still trapped. We'll try to have hope, @andyburnham.bsky.social. But hope only gets you so far. 166
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 23/07/2026🗨️ Lord Young: "A dedicated allocation to support the buyback of unmortgageable shared ownership properties within the current Social and Affordable Homes Programme is the solution." www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/lords-b...insidehousing.co.ukLords back review of shared ownership to help address ‘horror’ of living in unsellable and unmortgageable homesThe House of Lords has backed an amendment to the Social Housing Bill calling for a comprehensive review of the shared ownership model in the first year. 043
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 21/07/2026Yesterday, peers called for a review of shared ownership and demanded buybacks for trapped shared owners. They had some blunt words about how housing associations operate. The Minister resisted scrutiny. Peers voted. The Government was defeated. Decisively. 🖇️ Link in post below. 134
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 14/07/2026🚨 The MHCLG remediation programme has been downgraded from AMBER to RED. Successful delivery now "appears to be unachievable". Two years in govt & Labour is going backwards. Hundreds of thousands remain trapped in unsafe homes. And they call this change? www.constructionnews.co.uk/buildings/bu...constructionnews.co.ukCladding remediation programme 'appears to be unachievable', NISTA saysThe National Infrastructure and Service Transformation Authority (NISTA) has downgraded the government's cladding remediation programme to a red rating, 0108
Reposted by End Our Cladding ScandalThe Shared Owners' Network @sharedownersnet.bsky.social · 10/07/2026⚠️ Extreme heat Remediation work means some residents can't fully open windows or access balconies, making it impossible to cool and ventilate homes overnight. We've joined @eocs-official.bsky.social and @nonqualifyinglh.bsky.social in calling on Ministers to act. ⬇️ 086
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Today’s ministerial statement on building safety is a small step forward, but not the fair solution leaseholders need. No more piecemeal schemes, delays or costs for leaseholders. Homes must be safe and sellable for everyone. Our response ⬇️ endourcladdingscandal.org/posts/our-re...endourcladdingscandal.orgOur response to today's Ministerial Statement on Building Safety - End Our Cladding ScandalToday’s ministerial statement is a small step forward, but we fear these are more incremental measures that will not enable Labour to put an end to the building safety crisis any time soon. 3107
End Our Cladding Scandal @eocs-official.bsky.social · 17/06/2026“Trapped and overwhelmed… no end in sight.” 5+ years in limbo. Another example of the failing Developer Remediation Contract and lack of grip. Ministers and senior officials offer warm words while searching for excuses not to do the right thing. And they call this "change”? 043