Combustible cladding: protesters call on Boris Johnson to end crisis

Owners of apartments wrapped in dangerous cladding urge PM to release billions in funding

Owners of high-rise apartments wrapped in combustible cladding have demonstrated in Westminster to demand Boris Johnson release billions of pounds to end a national fire safety crisis that continues nearly 1,000 days after the Grenfell Tower disaster.

Families with young children, retirees and working couples from tower blocks in Manchester, Birmingham, Leeds, Southampton, Ipswich and Birmingham were among more than 100 residents who travelled to London to rally on Tuesday for an end to their “living nightmare” by announcing a bailout in next month’s budget.

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If I put washing up water on my vegetable patch will my vegetables taste soapy?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

If I put washing up water on my vegetable patch, will my vegetables taste of washing up water?

Peter Hanson, Whitestone, Exeter

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If I put washing up water on my vegetable patch will my vegetables taste soapy?

The long-running series in which readers answer other readers’ questions on subjects ranging from trivial flights of fancy to profound scientific and philosophical concepts

If I put washing up water on my vegetable patch, will my vegetables taste of washing up water?

Peter Hanson, Whitestone, Exeter

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Star property over £500,000 Nottingham Estate Agents

If you had to dream up a perfect farmhouse it would probably look something like this. Claybottom Farm is a magnificent whitewashed Lakeland residence with equestrian facilities, 12 acres of land, outbuildings, beautiful grounds and superb fellside views. It is for sale at £1.1 million and is marketed by Fine & Country, North Lakes and […]

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Renting with friends? What you need to know about joint accounts Nottingham Estate Agents

Opening a shared account when you’re renting can take away the stress of splitting the monthly outgoings. ‘Providing all parties have good credit history, a joint account for paying bills is the easiest way to neatly manage finances in a rented property,’ says Mustard estate agents, which covers Milton Keynes, Towcester and beyond. But there […]

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The acute social housing crisis and what Scotland can teach us | Letters

The sale of public land to private developers must be stopped, says Rev Paul Nicolson, while Kate Macintosh says the problem is not a lack of housing but affordability

Suzanne Moore got everything else right about the housing crisis but left out land (I’m on the housing ladder but I can’t cheer the rising prices, Journal, 22 February). Throughout the UK, truly affordable council housing was built on public land. The price of borrowing to build and maintain council estates and their communities was recovered over, say, 50 years by low earners paying low rents, which did not include the ever-increasing value of land. Councils are now using the high value of public land to finance developers to demolish council estates and build private housing, which council tenants cannot afford. Hence the 79% increase in homeless families in England to 86,000, including 127,000 children since 2010, some for up to and over 10 years, 1.1 million households on council waiting lists and 4,700 single adults sleeping rough each night.

The New Economics Foundation recently reported that the government sold enough public land for developers to build 131,000 homes, but only 2.6% will be for social rent. There is an urgent need for legislation that forbids the sale of public land and requires it to be used for affordable social housing.
Rev Paul Nicolson
Taxpayers Against Poverty

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Star property under £250,000 Nottingham Estate Agents

There can’t be many former school buildings as pretty as this one. Originally known as The School Room, Ravenlee is a mid-terrace Victorian Grade II-listed cottage which has been fully modernised throughout. View Ravenlee which is for sale at £225,000 and is marketed by Chancellors, Kington at OnTheMarket. In the little Welsh village of Norton […]

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