End Our Cladding Scandal
End Our Cladding Scandal is a campaign set up by Inside Housing, UK Cladding Action Group and other cladding action groups from across the UK, that calls on the UK government to lead an urgent national effort to solve the spiralling building safety crisis that has emerged since the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017.
In the absence of sufficient government funding, costs for remediation often fall on leaseholders – with sums reaching above £100,000 per flat in the worst cases. Leaseholders are also required to fund waking watches (24-hour fire patrols) and other interim measures, at costs of up to £1,600 per month each, until their blocks are made safe.
Around the country up to 4.5 million leaseholders live in modern flats that are unsellable – even in three-storey blocks – because they cannot demonstrate the safety of their cladding, insulation, balconies and wall structure, a necessary requirement of gaining a mortgage thanks to government guidance.
Lords Grand Committee: Building Safety Levy Regulations 2025
BBC Morning Live - The Impact of Prohibition Notices on Residents - 2nd Oct 2025
BBC NWT: Despair for Oldham Residents Still Locked Out of their Flats After 5 Years - 22/09/2025
BBC Morning Live: Buildings Served with Prohibition Notices and the Impact on Residents 16/09/25
ITV Granada: Debt and despair for Oldham residents locked out of their fire-hazard flats (25/06/25)
BBC London Politics: Lack of Progress since Grenfell Tragedy 8 Years Ago - 15/06/25
LBC Clare Foges: Bosses of US firm Arconic Knowingly Sold Dangerous Cladding - 15/06/25
ITV This Morning: Grenfell Survivors Still Waiting For Justice - 18/06/25
BBC South: Southampton Ocean Village Buildings Evacuated - 11 June 2025
ITV London News: Cladding campaigners meet with Housing Secretary Angela Rayner - 29/04/25
BBC London News: London Fire Brigade's Report on Dagenham Fire - 24 April 2025
Sky News: Social Housing Providers Call for Equal Access to Building Safety Fund (31/03/25)
BBC South Lunchtime News: Southampton flats' collapse risk led to evacuation (07/03/25)
BBC Radio Solent: Flats lack fireproofing to steel structure which puts lives at risk (07/03/25)
BBC Radio 5 Live: Spiralling service charges and no control over making homes safe (03/03/25)
BBC Breakfast: Non-Qualifying Leaseholders face life-changing costs since Grenfell (01/03/25)
ITV London News: Post-Grenfell product testing and certification still privatised (26/02/25)
5 MPs raise Tri Fire EWS1 fire safety scandal in Parliament - February 2025
BBC South News: Southampton residents evacuated due to fire safety defects (24/02/25)
BBC Radio Berkshire: Grenfell-style cladding contributed to Mosaic fire spread (20/02/25)
London Fire Commissioner: Tri Fire scandal shows failure to regulate building inspections (13/02/25)
ITV London News: Listen to us - Grenfell demolition plans (12/02/25)
BBC News: Government is tinkering around edges of the building safety scandal (09/02/25)
Deputy PM defends Grenfell demolition meeting & action on unsafe homes still years away (09/02/25)
MHCLG evidence to the Public Accounts Committee Inquiry on Cladding (03/02/25)
EOCS evidence to the Public Accounts Committee Inquiry on Cladding (03/02/25)
BBC Radio 5 Live: Grenfell demolition puts cladding scandal out of sight, out of mind (06/02/25)
BBC Radio Surrey: Government must restore confidence in fire safety appraisals (04/02/25)
Cladding Scandal in Parliament - January 2025