London Evening Standard

Barnet Council fears new national cladding crisis as it sounds alarm over UPVC on houses

A north London council has sounded the alarm over what it fears could be a fresh national cladding issue after a probe found UPVC on buildings to be hazardous. Hundreds of Barnet residents face being ...
Dezeen

Pretty Plastic shingles made from recycled PVC windows and gutters are "first 100 per cent recycled cladding material"

A new range of facade cladding tiles made of recycled PVC construction waste, designed by Dutch studios Overtreders W and Bureau SLA, has been used on a permanent building for the first time. Called ...
London Evening Standard

'Inconceivable': Hundreds of Barnet residents face paying up to £23,000 to reclad ex-council homes over fire risk

More than 400 Barnet residents have been told they must pay between £14,000 and £23,000 to replace cladding which the council has identified as a fire risk Barnet residents who have been told their ...
Inside Housing

Special investigation: how the government missed the chance to prevent the cladding crisis in the 1990s

Relying on new archive documents and interviews with some of the key players, Peter Apps reveals the untold story of how the opportunity to avert the cladding crisis was lost in the 1990s. Relying on ...