{"id":3602,"date":"2019-03-04T07:27:19","date_gmt":"2019-03-04T07:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/?p=3602"},"modified":"2019-03-04T07:27:19","modified_gmt":"2019-03-04T07:27:19","slug":"lendlease-to-pay-for-5m-manchester-block-reclads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/lendlease-to-pay-for-5m-manchester-block-reclads\/","title":{"rendered":"Lendlease to pay for \u00a35m Manchester block reclads"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lendlease has agreed to pay for the replacement of flammable cladding on two tower blocks in\u00a0Manchester\u2019s Green Quarter.<\/p>\n

Residents had been campaigning for two years to make the buildings safe after unsafe cladding was found following Grenfell tragedy safety check.<\/p>\n

The contractor agreed to fund the project along with freeholder Pemberstone.<\/p>\n

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At the two Green Quarter blocks, Vallea Court and Cypress Place, each resident was originally told they would need to pay thousands to replace the cladding.<\/p>\n

Since then the government has called on freeholders and developers to do the right thing and fund retrofitting.<\/p>\n

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Manchester Liberal Democrat Leader, John Leech, who had campaigned for\u00a0Manchester\u00a0City\u00a0Council to strip Lendlease of\u00a0its separate \u00a3330m town Hall\u00a0upgrade job as a result of the row\u00a0over who would pay for recladding welcomed the news.<\/p>\n

He said:\u00a0“This is a huge, huge win for local people and I’m delighted that Lendlease and Pemberstone\u00a0have\u00a0finally taken responsibility and will pay for the new cladding.\u00a0I really hope this sets a precedent across the country.”<\/p>\n

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from Construction Enquirer https:\/\/ift.tt\/2IQaDVW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lendlease has agreed to pay for the replacement of flammable cladding on two tower blocks in\u00a0Manchester\u2019s Green Quarter. Residents had been campaigning for two years to make the buildings safe after unsafe cladding was found following Grenfell tragedy safety check. The contractor agreed to fund the project along with freeholder Pemberstone. At the two Green […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-3602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-construction-enquirer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3602"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3603,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3602\/revisions\/3603"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cita.co.uk\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}