Dagenham leaseholders left homeless by fire could be forced to pay for cladding works
Greater London Authority seeks £6m refund for uncompleted fire safety work on destroyed Spectrum BuildingUK politics live – latest updatesPeople who lost their homes when a tower block in Dagenham burned down say they are being made to pay for the building’s fire safety works after the...
<p>Greater London Authority seeks £6m refund for uncompleted fire safety work on destroyed Spectrum Building</p><ul><li><p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/politics/live/2026/mar/25/rycroft-review-foreign-financial-interference-keir-starmer-kemi-badenoch-pmqs-latest-news-updates">UK politics live – latest updates</a></p></li></ul><p>People who lost their homes when a <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/26/apartment-block-dagenham-fire-london-latest-updates-today-lfb">tower block in Dagenham burned down</a> say they are being made to pay for the building’s fire safety works after the government demanded its money back.</p><p>Former leaseholders of the Spectrum Building, a seven-storey block of flats which was demolished after a major fire in August 2024, said it was “absolutely outrageous” the Greater London Authority (GLA) was seeking to reclaim £6m for the safety works because the blaze meant <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/article/2024/aug/27/removal-unsafe-cladding-buildings-too-slow-angela-rayner">they were never completed</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/mar/25/london-authority-seeks-fire-safety-works-refund-for-building-that-burned-down">Continue reading...</a>
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