Leaseholders fear they won’t qualify for grants that were meant to protect them
A single parent who has been working on NHS Covid testing is among dozens of residents told that they each face a £100,000 bill to remove flammable cladding and make a series of other fire safety improvements to their apartment block.
Matthew Harris said he would be “destroyed” by the costs, which amount to more than he paid for his Salford flat less than a decade ago. Other residents in the Transport House development are said to have been off sick and sought mental health support, in a case that they say exposes serious inadequacies in the government scheme designed to protect leaseholders from serious fire safety costs after the Grenfell tragedy.
