The Earl of Lytton made some great suggestions to amending the building safety act this year. We need to support the Earl to make further amendments to ensure the whole industry pays. 

The first version of the building safety act is no longer fit for purpose. The whole industry must pay for the cladding and building safety crisis. The Earls amendments were proposing the industry pay up as a whole.

This doesn’t go far enough.

What must be found is a way to make sure the instigators of the cladding crisis pay first. Grenfell 2 inquiry concluded by Dame Judith Hackitt stated whilst the whole industry was incompetent however the only dishonest parties were the cladding and insulation manufacturers. It would be a travesty of justice if firms that were facing criminal charges for fraud were not made to pay for the crisis they instigated.

A wide construction industry levy MUST include, cladding and insulation manufacturers the root cause of the crisis. THEY must be included in those that pay in order to stop industry infighting which is causing delays.  The regulators that passed the products as safe should be also made to pay. The insurers that backed the design teams with professional indemnity insurance should also contribute. Especially insurers that had building regulations sign off functions they were making money from signing off building as safe! 

Contractors whose shoddy workmanship made buildings unsafe should also pay the list goes on….

Overseas cladding firms ripped off leaseholders conned the entire UK construction industry, 72 people lost their souls. Many more reasons why the industry should pay.

BBA and BRE failed in their duty make sure cladding and insulation products were safe sold in the market were safe. 

We’re here to demand that Labour don’t use excuses and amend the act so the whole construction industry pays for the building safety and cladding crisis. We’ve been given excuses like “cladding and insulation firms are overseas” or it might be difficult, who cares do the right thing and make the whole industry pay up. Even Barristers we have consulted have said the building safety act isn’t holding the cladding or insulation firms to account properly. 

Please sign and send to someone affected or who cares. 

The hazardous implications of defective cladding on buildings have become a top concern globally. Inferior quality materials not only pose significant safety hazards but also inflict unnecessary costs on homeowners and occupants who are forced to bear the burden of remedial works. 

Compelling figures bring this issue to light. In the UK, for instance, around 700,000 people live in high-rise blocks with flammable cladding (Source: The Guardian, 2020).

The solution to this problem lies firmly in the hands of the cladding manufacturers whose substandard products have failed to meet safety standards. This petition urges the government to take legal action against the cladding manufacturers. They need to take responsibility for their dangerous products and pay for necessary remedial works on all buildings with defective cladding. The building safety act is not enough. This act is poorly drafted and doesn’t hold the correct parties to account. Since Grenfell part 2 Inquiry concluded the only dishonest party to be the cladding manufacturers the act is no longer worded correctly. We need government to take direct action. After all the government will want to recoup the tax payers money is spent on fixing the buildings the cladding manufacturers ruined. 

This isn't a question of profit over principle—it's a matter of public safety and ethical responsibility.

Together, let's hold manufacturers accountable for their actions and protect our communities from further harm. Please sign this petition.