The government has announced a deadline for removing flammable cladding. Interesting timing… coming after the backlash over Notre Dame Cathedral’s fire damage being fixed first.
Under the plans, buildings higher than 18 metres – defined as high-rise – with dangerous cladding covered by government-funded schemes, external will be fixed by the end of 2029.
By the same date, unsafe cladding in buildings over 11 metres should either be fixed or have a date for completion, otherwise landlords will face penalties.
The drive to remove certain types of cladding from buildings was triggered by the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire which killed 72 people.
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An inquiry into the tragedy found that the building’s cladding, made from combustible material, was the “principal” reason for the fire’s rapid spread.
Seven years later, only one-third of tower blocks have been fixed and around half a million people are still living in mid and high-rise flats with unsafe cladding.
Campaigners for the work to be done have said the new targets are “underwhelming” and will mae a complicated process worse.
Apparently the announcement has been timed to coincide with a debate on the second report into the Grenfell Tower fire, which is due to begin this afternoon (Monday, December 2, 2024).
It seems the fact that it comes after France unveiled the restored Notre Dame – on which work was finished five years after the fire that gutted the ancient building – was just a coincidence (and an unlucky one for the Labour government).
Critics here have pointed out that Notre Dame is an architecturally- and culturally-significant tourist attraction that raises millions of Euros for France every year – while the UK tower blocks that are covered with inflammable materials have no such value.
From this, we may infer that in the UK, money is more important than human lives.
Considering the way they treat benefit claimants, one may suggest that this is a running them with UK governments.
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Government has announced a deadline for removing flammable cladding. Interesting timing…
The government has announced a deadline for removing flammable cladding. Interesting timing… coming after the backlash over Notre Dame Cathedral’s fire damage being fixed first.
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Seven years later, only one-third of tower blocks have been fixed and around half a million people are still living in mid and high-rise flats with unsafe cladding.
Campaigners for the work to be done have said the new targets are “underwhelming” and will mae a complicated process worse.
Apparently the announcement has been timed to coincide with a debate on the second report into the Grenfell Tower fire, which is due to begin this afternoon (Monday, December 2, 2024).
It seems the fact that it comes after France unveiled the restored Notre Dame – on which work was finished five years after the fire that gutted the ancient building – was just a coincidence (and an unlucky one for the Labour government).
Critics here have pointed out that Notre Dame is an architecturally- and culturally-significant tourist attraction that raises millions of Euros for France every year – while the UK tower blocks that are covered with inflammable materials have no such value.
From this, we may infer that in the UK, money is more important than human lives.
Considering the way they treat benefit claimants, one may suggest that this is a running them with UK governments.
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