Flammable cladding similar to the material which had covered Grenfell Tower is still being widely used across the UK. The combustible cladding used on Grenfell was a significant factor in allowing the ...

A widely used type of building cladding has proven in tests to be highly flammable. Nearly three years after the inferno at Grenfell Tower in June 2017, when aluminium composite material (ACM) ...

Cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower is lethal and must be fixed “as soon as possible”, government fire tests have found. Long-awaited tests carried out on High Pressure Laminate (HPL) ...

The government has been accused of a “futile desperation to contain the cladding scandal” as it prepares to combine high-pressure laminate (HPL) material with non-combustible insulation in its ...

Work is underway to replace flammable cladding at one of Ipswich’s tallest residential blocks – three years after problems were first uncovered. Scaffolding went up at the 52m-high St Francis Tower, ...