Cladding

Image caption, Paul Baston lives on the top floor of a tower block with the same flammable cladding as Grenfell Bob Hockenhull BBC Midlands Today Eleanor Lawson BBC News, West Midlands Published28 August 2024 Residents of high-rise blocks of flats which have the same cladding as Grenfell Tower have […] Click here to view original…

Royal Artillery Quays residents shown outside a block in the development. Shown (left to right): Adeline Tsang, Richard Cook, Steve Day, David Dowl, George Boyd, Stefan Malcolm, Balaji Manickam and Germana Bacchini Greenwich leaseholders have found themselves in a dispute with the developer for their homes over the safety […] Click here to view original…

Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner has said she will meet with building safety regulators to speed up the removal of unsafe cladding from at-risk buildings across England. The housing secretary made the comments during a visit to Dagenham, east London, the day after a […] Click here to view original…

Bob Hockenhull – BBC Midlands Today and Eleanor Lawson – BBC News, West Midlands Paul Baston lives on the top floor of a tower block with the same flammable cladding as Grenfell [BBC] Residents of a high-rise block of flats which has the same cladding as Grenfell Tower have […] Click here to view original…

Bob Hockenhull – BBC Midlands Today and Eleanor Lawson – BBC News, West Midlands Paul Baston lives on the top floor of a tower block with the same flammable cladding as Grenfell [BBC] Residents of a high-rise block of flats which has the same cladding as Grenfell Tower have […] Click here to view original…

Deputy PM vows to do ‘everything we can to support’ victims of tower block fire Progress on making buildings safe has been too slow and there remains “far too much” dangerous cladding on properties, the Deputy Prime Minister said as she visited the site of a fire in east […] Click here to view original…

The latest government data reveals there are 4,613 residential buildings 11m and over with unsafe cladding Source: Shutterstock Remediation work has begun or been completed on only 50% of the 4,630 housing blocks that are 11 meters or taller and have unsafe cladding, according to data released by the […] Click here to view original…

No description provided – Uncredited © Shutterstock An investigation has been launched into the cause of a fire in a block of flats in east London. The probe into the fire in Dagenham will be “protracted” and complex, according to London Fire Brigade commissioner Andy Roe. There are reports […] Click here to view original…

The fire at Mosaic Apartments on Slough High Street (Image: Nq) Dangerous, Grenfell-style cladding was fitted to parts of the High Street flats building that caught fire last week, the Observer can reveal. Almost 300 people had to be evacuated from the Mosaic Apartments building on High Street just […] Click here to view original…

Firemen battle a blaze at a block of flats in Dagenham in east London, Britain, 26 August 2024. Image: ANDY RAIN/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock The building safety crisis has been rumbling on for seven years since the Grenfell Tower disaster – and the fire in Dagenham is the latest chilling reminder of […] Click here to view original…