‘Life-critical’ fire issues found in 56% of Grenfell cladder’s residential blocks
Grenfell Tower: when this is the result of failing to ensure the materials used in building work meet safety standards, one would have expected developers to act fast. Instead, they have done little in almost seven years.
It is now nearly seven years since the inferno at Grenfell Tower in Kensington, London, that killed 72 people. The Tory government of the day promised to make sure the situation could not arise again – and has done nothing, it seems.
Those involved in the Post Office scandal that has captured the public imagination over the last week or so will know how that feels. It took a TV drama during an election year to shift Tory ministers off their thumbs, and even now we don’t know whether anything tangible will come of it.
Here are the facts, according to The Guardian:
More than half of the residential blocks built by the company responsible for installing the deadly cladding on Grenfell Tower have “life-critical” fire safety issues, it can be revealed.
Government figures analysed by the Guardian show the development arm of Rydon, the company that installed the flammable cladding which was the primary cause of the spreading fire that killed 72 Grenfell residents, has built 25 residential blocks across England and 14 have been found to have issues.
The data, newly published by the Department of Levelling Up, Housing and Communities, shows the country’s biggest property development firms are responsible for building at least 1,325 buildings above 11 metres that have been deemed unsafe.
It seems that, rather than take direct action and make sure change took place, the government started a “remediation” scheme in which developers would take responsibility for fixing problems on buildings they had put up.
Last year, the country’s largest developers signed up to a government scheme in which they agreed to take responsibility for addressing life-critical fire safety issues on all of the buildings taller than 11 metres erected in the last three decades.
Well, at least we know that these developers have done the work to find out what work needs to be done.
Will they go any further?
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Why didn’t they remove the cladding from these buildings the moment they realised?