Architects have voiced concerns that the latest major blaze at a timber-framed housing development could wrongly demonise a “perfectly safe” building material.

Fire destroyed a four-storey apartment building at Worcester Park in the early hours of yesterday in a blaze that firefighers said was “well-developed and intense” by the time they arrived on the scene.

The blaze at the 10-year-old block, part of the New England-styled The Hamptons development masterplanned by JTP, came three months after fire destroyed a wood-clad apartment building at Barking Riverside designed by Sheppard Robson.

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