Key takeaways from public inquiry into 2017 London disaster as 1,700-page final report is published
The fire “was the culmination of decades of failure by central government and other bodies in positions of responsibility in the construction industry to look carefully into the danger of incorporating combustible materials into the external walls of high rise residential building and to act on the information available to them”.
Arconic, the US corporation that supplied the plastic-filled cladding panels that were the main cause of fire spread, Celotex, which made most of the combustible foam insulation, and Kingspan, which made a small proportion of the insulation, were strongly criticised.The Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation was directly in charge of the refurbishment. It was appointed by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea to run its council housing stock.
The inquiry suggested a more conciliatory approach by Daffarn “might have been reciprocated” but the TMO “ought to have reacted less defensively”.The report talked about the “long-lasting trauma” of survivors, the bereaved and those evacuated from nearby homes “whose lives have been changed forever”. The inquiry provides a detailed account of the circumstances in which each person died, mostly on the upper floors trying in vain to escape the smoke and flames.
In many cases, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea failed to provide adequate emergency accommodation. The arrangements for obtaining food at some hotels made some people “feel like refugees”.The Building Research Establishment, a now-privatised former government facility that runs full-scale fire tests, was involved in checking the insulation provided by Celotex and Kingspan.
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