For the victim, the ending is right now wrapping Crisis-the premise is that they live in low-rise neighborhoods.
Minister of Housing Robert Jenric Once announced that after consulting experts, he believed that there was no “systematic” fire Blocks below 18 meters or about six stories high have safety issues.
This does not mean that there will be no fires in these buildings. But it is easier and faster to evacuate residents from low-rise buildings than from high-rise buildings, which means that the risk of death and injury is therefore lower.
Jenrick told the House of Commons that he believes that low-rise buildings should therefore be exempt from the controversial “exterior wall survey” test system, EWS1, which was launched in 2019. Glenfelta The tragedy of assessing whether the structure of the building is fireproof.
Since then, mortgage lenders have refused to provide loans for buildings that have not undergone EWS1 or were found to lack EWS1. As a result, thousands of homeowners are in trouble because of houses that cannot be sold.
The policy U-turn means that people living in low-rise neighborhoods may have an escape route-although it remains to be seen whether all banks and building societies comply with the regulations. Jenric said that the three major banks, Barclays Bank, HSBC and Lloyds Bank, have already expressed their support for the government’s new position, and he hopes that other banks will follow suit.
Another key question-when owners of low-rise homes start trying to sell them, they need to be tested-is whether the stigma on the safety of these buildings will affect their value.
This news is a rare piece of good news for tenants who have fallen into cladding fiasco, many of whom have been paying huge expenses for emergency fire safety measures and repairs to defective buildings in the past two years.
Mary-Anne Bowring, group managing director of Ringley, a property management consulting firm, pointed out that for the thousands of “mortgage prisoners” who have paid high fees to obtain EWS1 certification, it is too late to change direction. “The question now is who will compensate them and, of course, what should be done for those who live in buildings 18 meters or higher,” she said.
“We need to see the government take urgent and decisive action. The owners should not be allowed to bear the financial burden of the renovation project.”
