Only a quarter of tall buildings with unsafe cladding have completed remediation

By Tom Lowe2024-06-21T11:08:00

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Latest official figures reveal scale of work still to be done to make high rise housing blocks safe

Only a quarter of high rise residential buildings found to contain unsafe cladding have had their remediation works completed seven years after the Grenfell Tower fire.

The latest government figures show 1,088 buildings above 11 metres have been made safe out of the 4,374 identified to be at risk.

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