It has been two years since residents at a block of flats in Birmingham were told cladding was making their homes unsafe. Islington Gates is among the first developments in the country to undergo ...
A fire safety expert is demanding ministers reveal whether "highly dangerous" cladding, secretly tested in the early 2000s, was the product used at Grenfell Tower. In September, the BBC uncovered ...
Government assurances about the safety of combustible cladding on high-rise buildings have been called into question. It comes after a claim that the plastics industry "influenced" official fire tests ...
Thousands of apartment owners across Australia who thought they were safe from potentially deadly cladding fires now face millions of dollars in bills to remove and replace timber-based panels. In a ...
Barnet Council alerts DLUHC to risks posed by timber-frame homes fitted with UPVC panels Barnet Council has discovered that hundreds of its low-rise timber-frame homes were fitted with plastic ...