Government announces action plan to speed up combustible cladding removal on private buildings

By Jordan Marshall2018-06-29T06:00:00

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Work has started on just 21 of 297 buildings

Housing secretary James Brokenshire has announced a package of measures to push building owners to remove potentially unsafe cladding on private sector high-rise residential buildings.

Monthly data, which was released yesterday, showed that 297 private sector high-rise residential buildings had unsafe cladding, 156 of which are clad with the same type of ACM cladding that was on Grenfell Tower.

Brokenshire has been clear that he believes building owners are responsible for making buildings safe and local authorities have also started enforcement action in all but a handful of cases to compel them to take action.

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