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26/06/2017

60 High-Rise Tower Blocks Fail Cladding Tests

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A total of 60 high-rise tower blocks in 25 local authority areas have failed fire cladding combustibility tests.

Following the events of the Grenfell Tower, samples of ACM cladding on high rise residential tower blocks across the country were ordered to be sent for testing at the Building Research Establishment (BRE).

All landlords and fire and rescue services in the local authority areas which have failed combustibility tests have now been alerted.

Councils which have failed tests so far are as follows;

• Barnet – 3 buildings

• Brent – 1 buildings

• Camden – 5 buildings

• Doncaster – 1 buildings

• Hounslow – 1 buildings

• Islington – 1 buildings

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• Lambeth – 1 buildings

• Manchester – 4 buildings

• Norwich – 1 buildings

• Plymouth – 3 buildings

• Portsmouth – 2 buildings

• Stockton on Tees – 3 buildings

• Sunderland – 5 buildings

• Wandsworth – 2 buildings

• In addition 11 other areas where cladding test failed – 27 buildings

• 25 areas total – 60 buildings

Speaking last week, Communities Secretary Sajid Javid said the fact all samples so far have failed the tests "underlines the value of the testing programme we have set up with the Building Research Establishment to get samples checked properly in the laboratories".

"It is therefore very important for local authorities and housing associations to continue to submit such samples as a matter of urgency," he said.

"In the meantime, local authorities are contacting fire and rescue services in their area to conduct fire safety inspections of these tower blocks to inform them on what remedial works might be required.

We expect that authorities and landlords are very sensibly giving the highest priority to buildings with which they have most concern. But we should not be in the position where buildings have such cladding on them. How this occurred – and preventing this from happening again – is likely to be a key question for the public inquiry."

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