What is cladding and why was it used in so many buildings?
Some buildings still have the same dangerous cladding in place that Grenfell Tower did (Picture: It’s been five years since the devastating Grenfell Tower fire in 2017. The tragedy, which killed 72 people and impacted countless more lives, made public the issue of unsafe, highly-flammable cladding attached to high-rise […]Click here to view original web…
Inside the never-ending nightmare of Britain’s building-safety crisis five years after Grenfell
Giles Grover has been campaigning to make the government and developers fix years of substandard building work and remove dangerous cladding “The last few months have been the most painful, most stressful of my life,” says Giles Grover, a leaseholder who is campaigning to bring an end to Britain’s […] Click here to view original…
The scapegoating of the Grenfell firefighters
. Heroes are being hung out to dry (DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images) Five years ago, in the early hours of the morning, I was suddenly awoken by a ringing mobile phone. Sky News were hoping to speak to a Fire Brigades Union (FBU) official. A fire was ripping […] Click here to view original…
Fire safety flaws at 1,000 tower blocks five years on from Grenfell
More than 1,000 residential tower blocks in London still have serious fire safety issues such as flammable cladding , five years on from the Grenfell Tower disaster. Tomorrow is the fifth anniversary of the fire at Grenfell, which killed 72 people. The building was wrapped in combustible cladding which […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell fire: Five years on, are London blocks safer and how many still have flammable cladding?
Five years ago this week, 72 people died in a catastrophic fire at Grenfell Tower in west London — one of the UK’s worst modern disasters. In the wake of the 2017 tragedy, it emerged that the type of cladding which fuelled the fire’s spread had been used on […] Click here to view original…
Dangerous cladding costs expected to top £1bn in Scotland
The cost of identifying and removing dangerous cladding from homes across Scotland is expected to reach £1 billion, it has emerged. Tomorrow the country prepares to mark the fifth anniversary on Tuesday of the Grenfell Tower disaster when 72 people died as fire tore up a tower block wrapped […] Click here to view original…
Flammable cladding a ‘real issue we need to get sorted now’
Sky News Queensland Editor Peter Gleeson says flammable cladding is still an issue five years after the Grenfell Tower disaster, which killed 72 people. The peak body for Australia’s apartment sector has warned the dangers of flammable cladding persist across the country – particularly in Queensland. It warns several […] Click here to view original…
Grenfell five years on: could it happen again?
After the Grenfell Tower fire, politicians of all colours committed to ensuring such a disaster would never happen again. But, five years on, has this promise been kept? Peter Apps investigates Picture: Alamy Sharelines Five years ago this week, the country awoke to heart-stopping images of Grenfell Tower on […] Click here to view original…
Cost of identifying and removing dangerous cladding from homes across Scotland to reach £1 billion
Abhijeet, Kiaan and Advay outside their apartment in Finnieston, Glasgow (Pic: Andrew Cawley) The escalating cost of identifying and removing dangerous cladding from homes across Scotland is expected to reach £1 billion. Holyrood has so far received £97 million from the UK Government to deal with the crisis, with […] Click here to view original…
Five years after Grenfell tragedy Perth buildings still wrapped in flammable cladding
It was a high rise death trap and a building industry failure that cost 72 people their lives. On June 14, 2017 a fire started on the fourth floor of the Grenfell Tower in London where 300 residents lived. Within minutes, the fire had raced up the exterior of […] Click here to view original…
Home Office faces legal challenge over plans to reject Grenfell Inquiry recommendation on evacuation plans for disabled people
The Home Office has been threatened with a legal challenge from two disabled residents of buildings with fire safety risks, over its plan to ditch a critical Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendation on the provision of evacuation plans. Picture: Lucy Brown Sharelines In a pre-action letter sent last week, seen […] Click here to view original…
‘We’re still stuck in cladding limbo’: The people trapped in unsafe buildings five years after Grenfell
Tuesday will mark the fifth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, but around a million people still stuck in unsafe buildings across the UK are questioning why so little has changed in that time The Government has announced a raft of changes to address the cladding crisis in recent […] Click here to view original…