ELEVEN councils across Sydney and the Central Coast have failed to respond to requests to investigate buildings that could repeat the devastating Grenfell Tower inferno, the State Government claims.
NSW Better Regulation Minister Matt Kean said the councils failed to respond to alarming results relating to potentially deadly cladding linked to last year’s Grenfell apartment tower fire in the UK.
A total of 435 buildings were identified as “potentially high-risk” during a joint government and Fire and Rescue NSW inspection, resulting in 33,000 letters sent to notify building owners, residents and local councils of the concerns.
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