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Posted on 09/10/2024 in Building & Construction Fire Safety 2024
Thousands of UK flats have unsafe cladding

England and Scotland alone have over 15 000 tall apartment blocks which still have non fire-safe cladding. The UK Government has said that there may be 7 000 buildings for which cladding fire safety remediation is needed which have not yet been declared, in addition to the 4 600 already identified (see above). Surveyors in Scotland suggest that there are 5 500 apartment blocks there with non fire-safe cladding, of which only 140 are in the Government’s remediation programme and only one has seen its dangerous cladding removed. This would mean maybe over 100 000 people living in affected homes in the UK, and the problem is much wider with such cladding on buildings worldwide.

“Up to 7,000 unsafe buildings have not applied for cladding safety scheme, minister says”, Inside Housing, 12th September 2024 https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/up-to-7000-unsafe-buildings-have-not-applied-for-cladding-safety-scheme-minister-says-88533

“Flammable cladding replaced on one of 5,500 Scottish housing blocks”, Inside Housing, 12th September 2024 https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/flammable-cladding-replaced-on-one-of-5500-scottish-housing-blocks-88525

“List of high-rise façade fires”, Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_high-rise_fa%C3%A7ade_fires

Photo Flammable cladding being stripped off Horatia House, Tim Sheerman-Chase, Wikimedia Commons https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flammable_cladding_being_stripped_off_Horatia_House.jpg

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