An investigation is under way into the cause of a fire that “spread rapidly” at a student accommodation block in Bolton covered in cladding. Safety campaigners have warned the blaze on Friday night ...

A large London housing association is working to strip cladding from a tower block of a kind recently revealed never to have passed a large-scale test. Metropolitan announced in its annual report for ...

The government has been accused of a “futile desperation to contain the cladding scandal” as it prepares to combine high-pressure laminate (HPL) material with non-combustible insulation in its ...

Plastic laminate first came to prominence back in the 1940s and 50s as a popular kitchen countertop material. But by the late-1980s it was beginning to fall out of favor as homeowners began replacing ...