Insulation is to now be included in further tests on cladding from tower blocks, it was revealed yesterday, after one London borough’s leader criticised the Department for Communities & Local ...

In the immediate aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire last year, a number of local authorities sent samples of aluminium composite material (ACM) cladding taken from council-owned buildings to a ...

The government said a process carried out by the Building Research Establishment (BRE) showed that certain cladding systems using aluminium composite material with a category two fire-resistant ...

Social landlords are waiting for results from government tests before taking action to remove potentially dangerous cladding from 24 blocks, they have told Inside Housing. Almost two years after the ...

Thousands of people are at risk of a Grenfell-style fire because of a “flawed” test that stated a type of cladding covering hundreds of tower blocks is safe, the government has been told. Fire safety ...

Ministers have been urged to reveal whether the type of cladding used at Grenfell Tower may have failed fire tests commissioned by the government more than a decade prior to the blaze that killed 72 ...