The London Fire Brigade said the building had ‘known’ safety issues, and work was ongoing to remove ‘non-compliant cladding’ An investigation has been demanded into the role of flammable cladding in a “terrifying” fire at a London tower block, seven years after safety concerns were raised by the Grenfell […]Click here to view original web…

Mary Isokariari, from left, Germana Bacchini and her husband, and Sahand Mozafari have been waiting years for their buildings to be made fire safe Steve Day lives in a London apartment block lined with £16.7m worth of flammable claddin g. He believes it is so dangerous his building could […] Click here to view original…

Messages of support written on a wall surrounding Grenfell tower in west London (Photo: Isabel Infantes / AFP) Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner has pledged to end “foot dragging” by developers and freeholders which means thousands remain living in buildings wrapped in unsafe cladding days before the publication of […] Click here to view original…

Mary Isokariari, from left, Germana Bacchini and her husband, and Sahand Mozafari have been waiting years for their buildings to be made fire safe Steve Day lives in a London apartment block lined with £16.7m worth of flammable claddin g. He believes it is so dangerous his building could […] Click here to view original…

Barrister Gemma Lindfield at the east London flat she is unable to sell because the block has dangerous cladding. As the final report on the fatal London blaze looms, many developers have not begun safety work Rowan Moore: The Grenfell inquiry is exposing a culture of contempt that has […] Click here to view original…

Mary Isokariari, from left, Germana Bacchini and her husband, and Sahand Mozafari have been waiting years for their buildings to be made fire safe Steve Day lives in a London apartment block lined with £16.7m worth of flammable claddin g. He believes it is so dangerous his building could […] Click here to view original…

Combustible cladding could be used safely when designing buildings and only led to added risk if used by careless, incompetent building-industry “villains”, a court has heard. German manufacturer 3A Composites and its Australian distributor Halifax Vogel Group (HVG) are facing a Federal Court class action over a type of […] Click here to view original…

Image caption, It took 50 firefighters to put out the blaze at midnight on 22 August A local authority knew that cladding on an area of a building that caught fire last week was similar to that which contributed to the Grenfell Tower disaster. Nearly 300 people were evacuated […] Click here to view original…

It took 50 firefighters to put out the blaze at midnight on 22 August [BBC] A local authority knew that cladding on an area of a building that caught fire last week was similar to that which contributed to the Grenfell Tower disaster. Nearly 300 people were evacuated from […] Click here to view original…

Greenwich leaseholders have found themselves in a dispute with the developer of their homes over the safety of the buildings’ cladding. The issue has left residents with ‘crippling’ service charge bills and fears that they are unable to sell their flats. The concerns follow the seventh anniversary of the […] Click here to view original…

Lucy Tissington says she feels trapped in a home she can’t sell, as Richard Payne reports A woman says she is suffering from anxiety after being told the Bristol flat she lives in is a fire hazard. Lucy Tissington, 34, says she is unable to sell the two-bed property […] Click here to view original…

Fire engines outside Mosaic Apartments on Slough High Street (Image: NQ) Slough Borough Council knew there was flammable cladding on Mosaic Apartments on the High Street around a month before a fire broke out there, the Observer can reveal. In July the government wrote to the authority making it […] Click here to view original…