Authorities may need to ban the cladding used on the outside of Grenfell Tower, experts have said. The cladding – metal panels that were stuck on the outside of the building to help insulate and ...

"leaky homes" refer to homes built between 1994-2002 because of monolith cladding directly over the timber frame plus poor design (roof without eaves) if there is a house with monolith cement cladding ...

Critical safety work to homes that had been covered in flammable timber cladding will go ahead after planning permission was finally given the go-ahead. The old boards were taken down from homes in ...

A fire destroyed Grenfell Tower in June 2017, with the loss of 72 lives The firm that sold the cladding used at Grenfell Tower knew about the risk of fires in 2013, but continued to offer a flammable ...

The company that manufactured cladding which was blamed for spreading the Grenfell Tower fire has suggested its products were misused during the refurbishment of the building. In a closing speech to ...

Panels made from plastic and aluminium were installed on the sides of Grenfell Tower to make it warmer and drier. But the cladding has been blamed for helping flames to spread when fire broke out in ...

The government has changed the wording of technical advice blamed for playing a part in the Grenfell Tower fire. Officials now say combustible cladding panels should not be used on tall buildings ...