High Rise Flats: Insulation

(asked on 19th March 2019) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, whether he has made an assessment of the fire safety risk to residents in developments containing one or more of the 163 private residential blocks still covered in ACM cladding where their block is not covered in cladding but may be affected by a fire in one that is.


Answered by
Kit Malthouse Portrait
Kit Malthouse
This question was answered on 22nd March 2019

The Government’s priority is to ensure that residents of high-rise (above 18 metres) buildings with unsafe Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) are safe in their homes. It is in everyone’s interests, including those who live in neighbouring buildings, for unsafe buildings to be remediated as quickly as possible.

We have set up a comprehensive programme to oversee ACM remediation and have pushed owners and local authorities hard to identify and remediate unsafe buildings. We have also worked closely with local authorities and Fire and Rescue Services to ensure that interim safety measures are in place where needed, to ensure that buildings are safe until the cladding is replaced.

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