Cladding

Smoke billowing from the 27-storey Grenfell Tower in west London in 2017 A “Scottish Grenfell” could happen if action isn’t taken to remove flammable cladding from more than 300 Scots buildings, housing campaigners have warned. It comes after a devastating tower block blaze in Dagenham , east London, in […] 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…

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…

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…