Merle Court Recladding

Martin Francis has an interesting notice of further work needed at Merle Court, a new block in South Kilburn.  The block opened only seven years ago.

It seems that the block has fallen foul of the cladding issues that have followed the Grenfell fire.  A new investigation found that as well as the wrong type of cladding, the site had unspecified issues with the brick work.  It was not identified as a problem as recently as March last year. It does raise the question of whether Brent, or anyone else, is as effective in tracking these issues as it would like to think.

If so there may be a massive financial liability that landlords are sitting on top of without even being aware of it.