Issue - meetings

The Corporate Director for Place Management & Regeneration to report at the meeting.

A representative of the Corporate Director for Place Management and Regeneration attended the meeting and provided an update on the Council’s response to the Grenfell Tower fire. 

The following comments were made:-

·         Stockport had 22 tower blocks, 6 of which were cladded.  Of those 6 towers, four were clad with basalt which was a Grade A non-combustible material.  The remaining two towers were clad with aluminium with non-combustible insulation and with fire stops installed within the structure.

·         Prior to the Grenfell Tower fire, all tower blocks had received at Level 4 fire risk assessment, following which £4.9m of investment had been identified.  The required investment had been separated out into high priority works which had all been completed, and medium priority works which were due to be completed this year.

·         The Council had committed to testing the cladding material on its tower block, despite them being non-combustible, however due to a backlog at the BRE testing facility, this had not yet been completed.

·         Since the fire, fire risk assessments had been recommissioned on high rise tower blocks of which 8 had been completed.

·         The Council was looking to identify consultants who would be able to assess potential solutions to the retrofitting of sprinkler systems within Stockport’s tower blocks.

RESOLVED – That the update be noted.