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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Josh Salisbury

Tower Hamlets: London council orders removal of dangerous Grenfell-style cladding in 'UK first'

Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman - (PA Archive)

An east London council has secured a legal order against a private building owner in the borough to remove Grenfell-style cladding from a high-rise block of flats.

Tower Hamlets Council said it had secured a remediation order against an unnamed private building owner requiring it to swiftly remove the cladding in what it said was the first case of its kind.

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