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.