England still has 17 occupied high-rise buildings with no plan to remove ACM cladding

By Tom Lowe2020-10-23T05:00:00

Cladding remediation works have also slowed in September despite lifting of lockdown restrictions

There are still 17 high-rise residential buildings in England that have no plan in place to remove their flammable cladding nearly three and a half years after the Grenfell Tower fire.

The housing ministry’s building safety update for September revealed that nearly half, 48%,- of all high rise buildings in England which have been identified as containing deadly ACM cladding - the type blamed for the Grenfell fire - still have it at least partially in place.

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