A Bristol apartment building’s owners were given six months to address major fire safety issues, including removing potentially harmful Grenfell-style insulation, under one of the first Building Remediation Orders in the UK, which was granted by a judge last year. There has been no action taken by the court by the deadline, which has left the people afraid in their homes.
Hundreds of thousands of people continue to live in buildings they know are hazardous, despite a significant study that will be released tomorrow that aims to identify and hold accountable those accountable for the catastrophic fire at Grenfell Tower that claimed 72 lives on June 14, 2017.
Acts passed seven years after the accident to resolve Britain’s building safety issue have not been implemented.
Based on the most recent government data, at least 3,280 buildings are known to still have dangerous cladding, and only 949 of those have commenced renovation.
If there is a fire, some persons within the structure might find it difficult to escape.The fact that there hasn’t been a fire is the best we have. And the thought of that is unsettling.”
A year after the Grenfell Tower fire in 2018, Ms. Culpin purchased her two-bedroom apartment in Orchard House, a former office building that was expanded and transformed into 54 flats.
