It made clear the previous cladding was not the same as that on the Grenfell Tower in London where 72 people died in a fire ...

The external cladding was removed from five tower blocks following fire safety inspections in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017. Tests had shown that the cladding used was identical ...

Workmen remove cladding from the facade of a block of flats in Paddington, west London, following the Grenfell Tower fire (Aaron Chown/PA) ...

The company responsible for removing potentially deadly cladding from a Swindon apartment block has said that work is drawing to a close.

A project to remove flammable cladding from an apartment block in Swindon remains ongoing three years after it was first needed.

Inside Housing’s fire safety campaign, Never Again, calls for the government to fund the retrofitting of sprinklers in tower blocks. Only 32% of UK adults ... to prohibit entirely the use of ...

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Southwark Council has approved tp bennett’s plans for a 25-storey student tower in Canada Water, south London, replacing ...

"It could take several years for all blocks to be refurbished," he added. The council removed cladding from the 14 blocks of flats in May 2024. Residents of the 250 flats have now been told the ...

Last October, Chancellor Rachel Reeves pledged an additional £1bn in the Budget to remove unsafe cladding. Last year, the final report from the public inquiry into the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire found ...