Over 56,000 people live in danger as 40 tower blocks still have unsafe cladding

mirror.co.uk:

At least 40 tower blocks still have unsafe cladding three years after the Grenfell disaster – with no plans to remove it. The shocking figure represents more than half of 75 private blocks identified as potential fire-traps by an inspection squad since 2018.

The owners of only 35 buildings have produced proposals for replacing aluminium composite cladding – the type that caused the 2017 inferno.

Forty others have failed to offer any plans for making their flats safer – with enforcement action taken against only two of them.

An estimated 2,600 families living in the 40 blocks have been put at risk by the owners’ inaction. And in total nationwide, it is feared as many as 315 blocks could still have similar unsafe cladding, with the total