In England, most private apartments are sold as long-term leases ... The government says tests on different kinds of dangerous cladding like HPL began last month, though experts have raised ...

Two were constructed from high pressure laminate (HPL) boards, formed from wood, or paper fibre, widely used on modern apartment blocks in the UK. In the tests, all five cladding systems were ...

Fire safety experts have called for all HPL cladding to be “urgently” removed as they raised major concerns with a parliamentary committee over the laboratory tests of the material.

Residents of six apartment blocks fear they are living ... bank of the Mersey in Runcorn after the high-pressure laminate (HPL) cladding on the buildings was deemed to be a fire hazard.

Investigators have confirmed the building’s HPL cladding will form part of the ... One of these buildings is the Aurora Apartments tower block in Ferryhill, Aberdeen, which in July became ...

He lives in the Skyline Central 1 building in Manchester, which was covered in high pressure laminate (HPL) cladding ... The 18-storey building has 121 apartments in total. However, because ...

Instead of ACM cladding, it had HPL, or high-pressure laminate - typically sheets of wood or paper joined together by a resin. HPL panels were used on windows in Lakanal House, a building in south ...

Two were constructed from high pressure laminate (HPL) boards, formed from wood, or paper fibre, widely used on modern apartment blocks in the UK. In the tests, all five cladding systems were ...

Instead of ACM cladding, it had HPL, or high-pressure laminate - typically sheets of wood or paper joined together by a resin. HPL panels were used on windows in Lakanal House, a building in south ...