Havering residents wrongly told flats had flammable cladding
Bell Flower Lodge was inspected in January to get a fire safety rating, introduced on all tower blocks after the Grenfell tragedy, known as an EWS1. Inspired Property Management, which runs the block, said documents containing specific details of the building’s cladding systems were “missing”. It therefore hired a company called Façade Remedial Consultants (FRC), based in Hampshire, to conduct a “drill test”, taking samples of the cladding to identify it. The £10,000 test, for which residents must pay, identified a wood-effect cladding up the side of the bui...