Former senior civil servant’s ‘deep regret’ building regs were not revised following cladding warnings

By Tom Lowe2022-03-10T10:50:00

Grenfell Inquiry told that fears over widespread use of ACM panels ‘should have been gripped better’

A former senior civil servant has expressed his “deep regret” that the government did not revise building regulations following warnings over the widespread use of combustible cladding in the years before the Grenfell Tower fire.

Former deputy director of building regulations Bob Ledsome told the inquiry into the 2017 blaze that the issues “should have been gripped better” by the Department of Communities and Local Government.

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