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Apparently MHCLG taking 2-3 months to prepare and sign grant funding agreements after funding level approved. Meanwhile materials costs going up and eye watering interim costs still being paid. This is scandalous! #BuildingSafetyCrisis #EndOurCladdingScandal

@First4Lawyers Buying a flat that turned out to need £45,000 of works to make it safe, meaning I can’t sell or remortgage for years

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CLADDING - Managing agents of blocks are refusing to sign contracts with government to release cladding funding. The dispute is delaying work to make buildings safe & increasing financial pressures on flatowners. Thnks to @BH_CAG⁩ ⁦@McrCladiators⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

@ForestBoy87 @LeaseholdHosta1 Couldn’t agree more.

Anyone else experiencing delay with BSF because grant funding agreement being changed by MHCLG? We’ve now been waiting for weeks for an update - ready to start works and can’t. Soul destroying! #BuildingSafetyCrisis #EndOurCladdingScandal

@oli_hackett Clause trying to stop the Applicant from talking to the press/public about the agreement, project etc. But now makes clear leaseholders can do so in their personal capacity.

@SeVictim Gagging clause ????

Cladding victims - new draft of the BSF Grant Funding Agreement dropped today. It’s much more favourable for leaseholders than the previous draft eg no gagging clause, don’t need all funds upfront, balconies potentially covered #BuildingSafetyCrisis #EndOurCladdingScandal

There’s also a clause making clear the MA/freeholder can’t demand service charge from leaseholders for sums which are BSF funded ie they can’t issue bills without knowing BSF outcome. Hopefully stops these bills landing prematurely for some...?

It isn’t published I don’t think - BSF caseworker should provide it. Get lawyers to read it, but there are substantive changes. Balconies are covered if they have to be removed to access the external wall system. Funds must be ready to complete works (not start). Hope that helps!

@LisaR8624 @CarolineJK9260 @mhclg Yes they’ve never published the agreement. Best thing is to ask MA to get copy from your caseworker. I wouldn’t want to advise on the impact of clauses, but I do think it’s more positive than the previous draft.

@CarolineJK9260 To be fair, there was nothing about the original BSF funding agreement on gov.uk either - despite calls for @mhclg to publish. #EndOurCladdingScandal #BuildingSafetyCrisis

@LisaR8624 Yes I think so (some changes around demanding SC and liability of the MA for funds) but you’re better asking the MA for a copy/confirmation. We’re an RTM so those things don’t really affect us - we’re liable as Applicant.

@SeVictim Thank you. Any changes to address the onerous clauses that mean MAs won't sign? Otherwise I'm not sure this is going to get things moving for many of us. #EndOurCladdingScandal #BuildingSafetyCrisis

@IMedneglawyer New agreement dropped today, and I think it deals with quite a lot of the issues. Time will tell!

@BadlyClad @BH_CAG @LongHarbourLtd @McrCladiators @ukcag Why won’t they let you apply?

@BH_CAG @LongHarbourLtd @McrCladiators @ukcag Virtual hugs! OurRTM won't let us apply (we are in London) 😭

Tonight we discovered that we are the ONLY building in #Manchester hasn't had their Waking Watch Relief Fund Agreement signed EVERY other freeholder has signed it & help their leaseholders but not Homeground aka @LongHarbourLtd! #EndOurCladdingScandal @McrCladiators @ukcag

@IMedneglawyer @meena77531087 @TowerHamletsJL @mhclg No we went straight through to do the full application (using funds from service charge to do the pre-tender work etc) in the hope it made things a bit quicker and we’d meet the deadline. Fat chance of that!

So BSF won’t allow money to be spent on cladding until you have collected money for non BSF remediations. This is all going to go pear shaped fast with works stalling when agents can’t collect all the money and builders won’t do works. Well done Jenrick and co.

@LisaR8624 @IMedneglawyer @meena77531087 @TowerHamletsJL @mhclg No we didn’t go for pre-tender funding in the end - decided to go straight through in the hope it didn’t hold things up. HA! @mhclg will always find a way to slow you down...

@SeVictim @IMedneglawyer @meena77531087 @TowerHamletsJL @mhclg Did your block not need pre-tender funding? Our MA can't complete our full application without the pre-tender funds we've been allocated. And they can't draw those funds down until they sign the agreement. So we're at a standstill...

@RobertJenrick You just told a big fat lie didn’t you Robert. I live in a building over 18m and I’m definitely not paying nothing for our fire safety defects. In fact even with BSF funding my bill is £12,000 and counting. Stop lying. #EndOurCladdingScandal #BuildingSafetyCrisis

@LucyMPowell It can’t only cover cladding. It needs to cover all defects (particularly where you can’t claim against developer for breach of building regs at time). Our balconies will cost £700,000 and they aren’t in scope of gov funding currently!

Ahead of tomorrow’s debate, our amendment (voting tomorrow) to Queens Speech calls for a deadline of June 2022, 5 years after Grenfell, to deal with all remaining unsafe cladded blocks #EndOurCladdingScandal