Recent Updates

03/05/2024 - Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities attended a meeting with Barnet Council to undertake a technical review of a sample of the properties.

24/04/2024 - Council issue further Q&As, find them here.

22/04/2024 - Ameet Jogia receives a response from the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities. Read the response here.

16/04/2024 - Cllr Rawlings receives responses from Lee Rowley MP and Richard Goodman (Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities). See the responses here.

15/04/2024 - "Inconceivable': Hundreds of Barnet residents face paying up to £23,000 to reclad ex-council homes over fire risk", article in The Standard is published. See the article here.

13/04/2024 - Residents hold second meeting to discuss progress and further concerns. Meeting minutes can be found here. 

12/04/2024 - Council provides Low Rise Cladding Feasibility Report, find a copy of the full report here & and an Executive Summary here.

06/04/2024 - Council hold "drop in" session for residents to visit. Copies of the display board information can be seen below.

Existing Timber Frame Wall Build-Ups

Existing Roof Party Wall Line with No Compartmentation

Proposed Wall Build-Up to Achieve Compartmentation

Proposed Roof Party Wall Line to Achieve Compartmentation

Project LBB Low Rise Program (timeline)

05/04/2024 - Petition to "Extend cladding remediation funding to buildings under 11 metres" goes LIVE. Sign the petition here. 

26/03/2024 - Dr Matthew Offord (MP) raises the issue in the House of Commons for a 2nd time.

"The cladding safety scheme is meeting the cost of addressing fire safety risks associated with cladding on residential buildings over 11 metres high, but that does not include low-rise buildings. The Minister has been contacted by Barnet Council following an investigation of a fire at a low-rise residential property last year, which established that 459 properties in my constituency constitued a category 1 hazard as defined by the Housing Act 2004. The council says that the remedial works will cost each homeowner £23,000, an unaffordable amount for many of my constituents. While low-rise buildings pose less of an escape hazard than high-rise buildings in the event of a fire, the widespread existence of cladding defects is a result of regulatory and industry failure and was not caused by actions taken by my constituents. Does the Minister agree that this is simply not fair, and will he draw up proposals as a matter of urgency to assist my constituents in this endeavour?"

The Minister for Housing, Planning and Building Safety (Lee Rowley) responds to Matthew Offord. 

"I am grate to my hon. Friend for raising the matter of low-rise blocks. According to the evidence that the Department has seen when looking at properties less than 11 metres high, it remains the case that the overwhelming majority do not require fire safety remediation, but i should be happy to meet my hon. Friend to talk about that in more details. It is important that we continue to highlight the lower likeihood of a problem such as we are discussing today, but it is also important that there are routes to redress. The extension of the Defective Premises Act 1972 provides an opportunity in that regard. It is important for residents, leaseholders and others to be aware of such avenues, and i should be happy to meet my hon. Friend to discuss those further as well."

21/03/2024 - Matthew Offord MP raises Burnt Oak cladding in House of Commons, watch here. Please ensure you email Matthew at matthew.offord.mp@parliament.uk 

"Barnet Council is legally not allowed to share the contact details of each resident with me because of data protection legislation so I am directly asking each and every person who has received a letter from Barnet Council about their timber framed home to contact me directly, in writing, stating their name, address and size of their property. This will allow me to take their cases directly to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities."

19/03/2024 - David Pinto-Duschinsky (our Labour candidate for MP) visits Parliament to meet with shadow Minister for Building /Safety, Mike Amesbury MP, to raise the issue of the cladding in Burnt Oak and how freeholders have been affected and for help on putting pressure on the Government. Additionally David has reached out to the chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on leaseholders (Justin Madders MP) and through him with the Chair of the National Leaseholders Campaign, although this is focused on leaseholders they have resources that could help. Once further conversations have taken place we will work for an on-going lobbying strategy. 

19/03/2024 - Email sent to Anne Clarke (London Assembly member for Barnet & Camden) asking for support to raise at the Mayors' question time.

17/03/2024 - Residents hold first meeting to discuss concerns and avenues that can be taken. Meeting minutes.

13/03/2024 - Council issues first update to FAQS, find them here.

13/03/2024 - Watch the cabinet meeting here. Skip to approx.19 minutes into the recording for the agenda point relating to our houses. 

12/03/2024 - Council cabinet meeting held, Fire safety in timber framed and timber/UPVC clad properties. Residents were asked to not be defensive and be patient. Loans will be 5-10 years. Further questions had to be exempt from public viewing. One to one meetings can be booked with the council. Agenda report here.

12/03/2024 - Email sent to the manufactures Cedral for comments on the councils proposed "installation" plan. See the manufactures fixing guide here.

12/03/2024 - Chaser email sent to the council as they advised we would receive some answers by Friday 8th, or Monday 11th latest and we didn't. In the chaser further questions raised on the proposed materials that were outlined in the heritage statement.  

11/03/2024 - Heritage statement by Capitol for the proposed changes here.

11/03/2024 - Ameet Jogia received call from Michael Gove's office acknowledging the letter. The office will look into our case for further support. 

08/03/2024 - Petition submitted “Protect freehold homeowners on remedial costs on unsafe government built homes”, pending check. 

08/03/2024 - Ameet Jogia sends letter to Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Read the letter here. 

08/03/2024 - David Pinto Duschinsky sends a letter to Michael Gove, Secretary of State for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities. Read the letter here. 

08/03/2024 - 11/03/2024 - Letters regarding a residents run meeting letterboxed to approximately 474 homes across Burnt Oak & Woodside Park areas. For a copy of the flyer click here.

Map of Burnt Oak affected houses here. 

Map of Woodside Park affected houses here.

06/03/2024 - Response to council with questions relating to the original letter & works, read the questions here. 

05/03/2024 - Barnet Council sends letter to Rt Hon Michael Gove MP, Secretary of State, read the letter here.

05/03/2024 - Barnet Council sends letter to Richard Goodman, Director General for Safer and Greener Buildings, read the letter here.

05/03/2024 - Barnet Council announces UK’s first-of-its-kind project to replace cladding on hundreds of houses, read the article here.

01/03/2024 - Letter sent to residents from the council advising them of the fire risk of the cladding on their home and they will be charged £14,000 - £23,000 to fix it. 

Original freehold letter here. 

Original freehold FAQs sent with the letter here.