In the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire last year, a number of local authorities sent samples of aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding taken from council-owned buildings to a ...

Developers who covered tower blocks in unsafe cladding have paid back less than 3% of the cash lent out by the government to make buildings safe, sparking accusations they are “getting away with it”.

Nearly 300 people were evacuated from the flats after a fire in August 2024.

More than half of social housing high-rise blocks are yet to have their aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding removed and replaced, less than four months before a government-imposed deadline.

The latest government data reveals there are 4,613 residential buildings 11m and over with unsafe cladding Remediation work has begun or been completed on only 50% of the 4,630 housing blocks that are ...

Government funding to remove dangerous Grenfell-style cladding from privately-owned tower blocks has been approved for just one building, official figures show. The Labour Party questioned the ability ...

Action has also been taken by local authorities and emergency services on at least 65 buildings with unsafe ACM cladding in their respective areas, with the majority of building owners starting ...

More than 100 firefighters were called today to a block of flats in east London designed by Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM), which were wrapped in combustible cladding similar to that used on ...