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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Ruth Bloomfield

Cladding crisis: south London flats could be demolished and rebuilt after serious safety flaws revealed

A block of flats in south London could be razed to the ground because demolishing it will be cheaper than trying to fix its critical safety flaws.

The drastic move follows a post-Grenfell inspection of Citiscape, a Barratt-owned building in Croydon, carried out in 2019.

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