AliDeck provides KMTV News production team with background on EWS1 and Cladding Scandal for report on impact on Chatham, Kent homeowners

AliDeck has been at the forefront of highlighting the issues surrounding the EWS1 scheme. First highlighting the looming crisis at the start of last summer, scooping almost all national and local media in the process, AliDeck have developed key information resources to help clarify the twists and turns in this debacle as it has played out.

We welcomed journalists from KMTV, a regional television station serving Kent, into our premises back in December and spent some time helping them to understand the shifting sands of EWS1 and the implications of the various interventions from Government and Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) on the use of combustible materials on balconies specifically.

A brief clip of AliDeck Head of Marketing, Steve Cole, is featured in the resulting report, aired this week on KMTV. While he is flattered to be billed on-screen as a “Building Fire Safety Expert”, he was simply keen to share his acquired knowledge on this matter with the media.

We were pleased to see that KMTV had compiled and broadcast a report on the subject, with the bulk of the report focusing on the impact on a block with timber cladding in Chatham, a stone’s throw from AliDeck’s Rochester HQ.

While the recent update to EWS1 criteria following RICS’ January consultation might not be able to assist the homeowner featured in the KMTV report (due to the amount of timber cladding on the building), any media exposure on this abhorrent situation must be welcomed as it shines a light on the problem and makes it more likely to be genuinely resolved.

Please take a few minutes to watch the news feature below, it is always humbling to see the real human impact this maddening problem is having on homeowners and to learn how the fallout from the Grenfell tragedy continues to reverberate.