The blaze when it broke out on eighth floor of New Providence Wharf
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The government has joined an MP in telling a developer that owners should make buildings safe” amid criticism that it waited four years after the Grenfell disaster to remove dangerous cladding from east London s New Providence Wharf tower block.
Poplar & Limehouse MP Apsana Begum
- Credit: Mike Brooke
Poplar and Limehouse MP Apsana Begum wrote to Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick on Monday (May 10) about the ACM cladding and other major fire safety defects” which are only now being removed.
But the minister already had a meeting on Saturday with the developers, Ballymore, the day after Providence Wharf had its third fire in eight years, and warned it about the delays over removing the cladding.
11 May 2021
The government has not allocated more than half of the cash it promised to help residents of tower blocks remove dangerous cladding from their buildings.
In the period up to 31 March this year, some £1.6bn was supposed to have been spent on the “remediation” of unsafe cladding on high-rise residential blocks.
But government figures show that only £757m of it had actually been approved by that time, representing just 47 per cent of the commitment.
The issue of cladding was drawn into focus on Friday as more than a hundred firefighters battled a blaze at New Providence Wharf in east London. Some 40 people needed treatment and two men were hospitalised after the incident, which led to protests over the weekend.
By Joey Gardiner 2021-05-10T11:04:00+01:00
Developer claims Grenfell-style combustible cladding played no part in major fire at SOM’s New Providence Wharf development
The developer behind a block of flats which caught fire in east London on Friday has claimed that the ACM cladding on the scheme played no part in the fire.
Two residents of Ballymore’s New Providence Wharf scheme in Poplar were taken to hospital on Friday suffering from smoke inhalation with a further 42 people treated at the scene after a blaze broke out affecting the eight, ninth and tenth storeys of the 19-storey block.
The blaze comes in the wake of a long campaign by residents to get Ballymore to replace Grenfell-style combustible ACM panels on the new-build block with fire-safe cladding. A subsidiary of the Ango-Irish developer was put on a “name and shame” list of landlords who had failed to take action on combustible cladding by the government at the start of the year.
By Joey Gardiner2021-05-10T10:33:00+01:00
Developer claims Grenfell-style combustible cladding played no part in major fire at New Providence Wharf development
The developer behind a block of flats that caught fire in east London on Friday has claimed that the ACM cladding on the scheme played no part in the fire.
Two residents of Ballymore’s New Providence Wharf scheme in Poplar were taken to hospital suffering from smoke inhalation with a further 42 people treated at the scene after a blaze broke out affecting the eight, ninth and tenth storeys of the 19-storey block.
The blaze comes in the wake of a long campaign by residents to get Ballymore to replace Grenfell-style combustible ACM panels on the new build block with fire-safe cladding. A subsidiary of the Anglo-Irish developer was put on a “name and shame” list of landlords who had failed to take action on combustible cladding by the government at the start of the year.
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