WOBO notes the current situation in Sydney.
More than 100 apartment and office buildings in the City of Sydney have been classified as at “high risk” of fire because of flammable cladding, as the NSW government fails to fulfil a promise to help homeowners remove the highly combustible product.
New figures obtained by The Australian reveal that 118 buildings with combustible cladding in the City of Sydney have been issued fire safety notices, with 103 of those sites categorised by the NSW Cladding Taskforce as “high risk”, posing an immediate threat to thousands of occupants.
Residents of the buildings live in fear of a repeat of London’s Grenfell Tower blaze in June 2017 when a fire in a kitchen raced up the exterior of the 23-storey building, killing 72 people. But the NSW government has failed to produce crucial plans regarding the rollout of Project Remediate, a three-year program designed to support homeowners with the removal of combustible cladding.