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Grenfell and the Cladding Scandal

The housing and communities secretary said it's "not right" for leaseholders or taxpayers to foot the bill of "shoddy" building work when he was questioned over Grenfell-style cladding; but he’s not going to make developers cough up. He’s going to allow leaseholders 15 years to sue developers, builders and, presumably designers. Or anybody else on whom liability will stick. This will have an immediate effect upon, amongst other things, Insurance premiums and building costs generally. As a knock-on effect, all professionals involved in construction, including Architects, will be required to increase their fees.  

DSH Architects have kept busy through the lockdown.

Currently, we are designing an extension to an old farmhouse that cuts through the Througham Long Barrow, an ancient monument. It may qualify as the oldest inhabited house in England. Alternatively, it might make an excellent wine cellar.

On checking our records, we note that whilst we mostly employ local people, we have had over a dozen different nationalities working here. Additionally, we have been populated by year-out students and work experience pupils from local schools, who have all contributed in one way or another.

Fin Stainer-Hutchins got his joint Photography and Cinematic degree at Leeds Art College. He is now a combat photographer with 43 Commando on HMS Prince of Wales.

Christine Mcdonagh has stood down after many years as company secretary. We wish her the best of luck and many thanks for all her hard work and good advice.

Jeremy Mahony is helping out as Practice Manager.

We have been appointed by the new owners of the Convent, Woodchester. This marvellous old building has been allowed to fall into disrepair and we are busy undertaking a detailed survey to help determine all the repair work that will be needed to be carried out to bring her back to life.

Tatiana Bohorquez has come to help out an architect. We are pleased and proud to have her as part of the team. 

Following our own brush with Cancer, we acknowledge the brilliant work of the Charity The Maggie's Centre in Cheltenham. They provide free one-to-one help and information which is invaluable and are unquestionably deserving of all the support they can get. Incidentally, all Maggie Centres are designed by well-known architects to a very high standard.

www.maggies.orgThe World of Insurance post Grenfell and Covid. We do of course maintain minimum professional indemnity insurance cover.  We are covered for £2,000,000 in respect of any one occurrence or series of occurrences arising out of one event.  However, the fall out from the Grenfell tragedy (and to some extent the Covid pandemic) means that there are certain events for which no cover is now available; for example if you want to dig out a new basement. Needless to say, we will always make it abundantly clear to a client if a proposed development or construction is incapable of PI insurance cover