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Grenfell Tower: Hundreds of buildings still have 'unsafe' cladding
https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/grenfell-tower-cladding

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Grenfell Tower: Hundreds of buildings still have 'unsafe' cladding

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/grenfell-tower-cladding
• Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
• Created: 2019-06-20T07:18:42.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2019-06-20T08:05:48.000Z (over 6 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-12-27T08:31:06.351Z (9 months ago)
• Topics: building, cladding, fire, grenfell, housing, safety
• Homepage: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48609595
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• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
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  • Readme: README.md

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# Grenfell Tower: Hundreds of buildings still have 'unsafe' cladding

![](https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/8DEF/production/_107353363_cladding1-nc.png)

In June 2019 **Dan Wainwright** [reported](https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-48609595) that more than 200 high-rise buildings in England with cladding similar to that used on Grenfell Tower were yet to have work to remove it.

## Get the data

* Ministry of Housing, Communities & Local Government: [Building Safety Programme: monthly data release - May 2019](https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/building-safety-programme-monthly-data-release-may-2019) - [data cached here](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/grenfell-tower-cladding/blob/master/acm2019.csv)

* CSV: [analysis grouping together all categories those where work is yet to start – including those with a plan in place and those where the plan is unclear or being developed](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/grenfell-tower-cladding/blob/master/acm2019a.csv)

## Quotes and interviews

* Karim Mussilhy, whose uncle died in the fire

* Alex Di Giuseppe, resident of City Gate, a block with ACM cladding in Manchester

* Spokeswoman, Rendall and Rittner (building's management agent)

* Lucy Powell, MP for Manchester Central

* Natasha Elcock, chair, Grenfell United

* Spokesperson, The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government

## Visualisation

* Stacked bar chart: tests taken place since Grenfell Tower fire, by category of building