The firm, which was revealed to have hidden the true size
of potential savings on cladding to boost its own profit margin, wanted to use
a cheaper “face-fixed” system rather than panels which had been cut into
cassettes. But planners at Kensington and Chelsea Council favoured the cassette
system because they believed it gave a smoother and more aesthetically pleasing
look. “I have a gut feeling that KCTMO may go [for] the cassette fixed cladding
option due to the perceived cladding risk,” wrote contract manager Simon
Lawrence in an internal Rydon email. “I’m giving it my hardest sales pitch as
we speak. Come on the Essex boy patter!” Read more on Inside Housing.
Eight in 10 homes in London’s poshest postcodes now sell below asking
price, Coutts finds
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Sellers in areas such as Belgravia and Mayfair face hundreds of thousands
of pounds in losses as property prices fall
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