CLADDING SAFETY
Up against the wall
EIGHT years after the Grenfell Tower fire, work still drags on to fix thousands of buildings with cladding and other safety problems. Is it just a money problem?
Not quite. The Eye recently heard from residents of Nine Sutton Court in south-west London (pictured), whose experience touches on the kinds of legal and financial messiness, as well as personal tragedy, the building safety crisis has brought in its wake. Their home was once an empty office block, bought in 2017 by the company of a property entrepreneur, Martin Skinner, and rapidly converted into flats under rules which permitted such conversions to take place without planning permission.