Contractor dumps flammable cladding on balconies

A specialist contractor has been fined £240,000 after flammable cladding was found lying on residents’ balconies at a Liverpool apartment block during removal work.
The combustible cladding was similar to that used on Grenfell Tower. Green Facades Limited had been contracted to remove the potentially dangerous aluminium composite panels and combustible insulation material from The Circle, an eight-storey building on Henry Street in Liverpool.
When an HSE inspector first visited the s