2,000 buildings need recladding three years after Grenfell

2,000 buildings need recladding three years after Grenfell

Three years after the Grenfell Tower fire disaster there are still an estimated 2,000 high-risk residential buildings with some form of dangerous cladding.

Only 149 of the 457 high-rise residential or other publicly owned buildings identified with ACM cladding have been remediated so far.

Furthermore, the Government now estimates a further 1,700 buildings are fitted with unsafe non-ACM cladding – like high pressure laminate panels – posing a risk to tenants and building users.

A report from watchdog MPs on the Housing, Communities and Local Government committee has warned that Government’s funding will fall far short of what is needed to carry out remedial work on all buildings with dangerous cladding and other fire safety issues.

Its £1bn Building Safety Fund to remove combustible non-ACM cladding from buildings above 18m is likely to only be sufficient to cover the cost of removal from a third of the 1,700 buildings needing remediation.

The MPs’ report also calls on the Government to make an absolute commitment to ensure that all buildings of any height with ACM cladding should be fully remediated of all fire safety defects by December 2021.

Buildings with other forms of dangerous cladding should have all fire safety defects removed by June 2022.

 

updated: 15/06/2020

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