Cladding is not just skin deep

ECD has reclad these tower blocks in Shepherd’s Bush, west London.

To answer Owen Hatherley’s rather naive question about over-cladding older residential tower blocks (Opinion September 18), most residential blocks have to be refurbished and upgraded with residents in place.

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