Cladding

Lifestyle Today’s Grenfell report has called for urgent work on fire safety, but victims — and those still trapped in London’s 1,300 cladded buildings — say there isn’t time to lose. Katie Strick reports When the fire alarm went off inside Gurpreet Sanghera’s eighth-floor flat in west London last […] Click here to view original…

London — The public inquiry into the deadly 2017 fire that engulfed Grenfell Tower, a high-rise public housing apartment building in central London, published its final report Wednesday on the disaster that killed 72 people. The blaze — London’s deadliest since World War II — was blamed on a […] Click here to view original…

Seven years on from the Grenfell Tower fire, which killed 72 people, legislation enacted to end Britain’s building safety crisis and tackle the issue of dangerous cladding is not being enforced, Sky News can reveal. A report following a public inquiry is released today. By Becky Johnson, communities correspondent, […] Click here to view original…

The Grenfell Tower blaze was Britain’s deadliest domestic fire since World War II The Grenfell Tower blaze was Britain’s deadliest domestic fire since World War II Combustible cladding was blamed for the spread of the fire Combustible cladding was blamed for the spread of the fire More than 80 […] Click here to view original…

As the report into Grenfell failings is released, residents of The Landmark are still affected a year after work began Adrienne Burton could not open her bedroom window this summer due to scaffolding Author: Katie Ahearn and Aine Fox, PA Residents of a Bexhill high rise are still living […] Click here to view original…

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The Grenfell fire was caused by the “systematic dishonesty” of construction companies that manufactured cladding for the tower block’s refurbishment, a seven-year public inquiry has concluded. Sir Martin Moore-Bick, the inquiry chairman, also placed blame for the fatal inferno on “decades of failure” by government ministers and officials who […] Click here to view original…

Pic: PA The government was “well aware” of the deadly risks posed by combustible cladding and insulation a year before the Grenfell Tower fire, but “failed to act on what it knew”, a landmark report has found. The report also said “systemic dishonesty” from cladding and insulation companies and […] Click here to view original…

Grenfell Tower, London, UK The latest government data shows that there are 2,300 residential buildings, at 11m or over, that have yet to have remediation work started on their unsafe cladding Government data has revealed that there are 4,613 residential buildings standing at 11m or over with unsafe cladding. […] 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…