Greenwich Premier Inn applies to have combustible cladding removed
The Premier Inn hotel on Greenwich High Road (Credit: Google Earth) A hotel in Greenwich has sent plans to remove combustible cladding from its building following assessments made after the Grenfell Tower fire. Premier Inn on Greenwich High Road has sent an application to the council to have combustible […]Click here to view original web…
Ipswich tower block repair costs could reach £30m
Construction on the tower block on the waterfront started in 2007 Costs to repair structural and fire safety issues on a tower block in Ipswich could reach £30m, administrators said. The freeholder of The Mill development went into administration in 2010. Administrators, RSM UK, told residents that funds were […] Click here to view original…
‘Grenfell lessons not learned’: Families from Tower block blaze demand cladding answers
The night of the Wembley fire (@LondonFire/Twitter) Residents have hit out at the management company of a tower block which caught fire, after they learned that it was fitted with Grenfell-style cladding. The Fire Brigades Union issued a warning over the use of cladding after over 120 firefighters were […] Click here to view original…
Report on cladding Bill finds only two out of 105 buildings have had work done
Workmen remove the cladding from the facade of a block of flats (Image: PA) Only two of the 105 buildings included in the Scottish Government’s cladding remediation programme have had work carried out, a new report has found. With a Holyrood committee scrutinising new legislation aimed at dealing with […] Click here to view original…
Scottish cladding report finds only two out of 105 buildings completed
Workmen remove the cladding from the facade of a block of flats (Image: PA) Only two of the 105 buildings included in the Scottish Government’s cladding remediation programme have had work carried out, a new report has found. With a Holyrood committee scrutinising new legislation aimed at dealing with […] Click here to view original…
Cladding report finds only two out of 105 buildings have had work done
Almost seven years on from the Grenfell Tower blaze, MSPs said that ‘clear timescales for remediation’ were needed Only two of the 105 buildings included in the Scottish Government’s cladding remediation programme have had work carried out. With a Holyrood committee scrutinising new legislation aimed at dealing with potentially […] Click here to view original…
Report on cladding Bill finds only two out of 105 buildings have had work done
The Scottish Government introduced a cladding remediation programme in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire (Lauren Hurley/PA). Only two of the 105 buildings included in the Scottish Government’s cladding remediation programme have had work carried out, a new report has found. With a Holyrood committee scrutinising new legislation […] Click here to view original…
Scottish cladding report finds only two out of 105 buildings completed
Only two of the 105 buildings included in the Scottish Government’s cladding remediation programme have had work carried out, a new report has found. With a Holyrood committee scrutinising new legislation aimed at dealing with potentially flammable cladding on blocks of flats, MSPs said that “progress has been slow”. […] Click here to view original…
Firefighters’ union demands ‘action and justice’ in wake of Valencia cladding fire
The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) has called for ‘action and justice’ in the wake of a fire in a block of flats in Valencia. The fire, which was first reported on Thursday evening, has killed at least ten people. Initial indications are that flammable cladding played a key role […] Click here to view original…
‘We were in survival mode’ say couple saved from inferno by cherry-picker
THE couple who cheated death during the devastating Valencia fire said they “went into survival mode” before heroic firefighters saved them. Trapped on their seventh-floor balcony for over two hours, the pair were rescued from the inferno which killed at least ten with a cherry picker. Sara and Amar […] Click here to view original…
Spain’s Grenfell: Four dead and 19 missing after cladding blaze ripped through flats in Valencia
Four confirmed dead and 19 missing after fire tore through flats in Valencia. Picture: Getty Four people have died and dozens are missing after a fire tore through an apartment block in Spain. Listen to this article Loading audio… Firefighters rushed to the scene of the fire in Valencia, […] Click here to view original…
Iona Cleave
HARROWING videos show the speed at which a deadly inferno engulfed a Valencia apartment block in just 14 minutes. The terrifying footage captured the moment the vicious fire first broke out before the lightning-fast blaze ripped through the flammable cladding , spiralling into a massive inferno. At 5.37pm, a […] Click here to view original…