"It's frustrating and scary" - Bexhill woman accuses Government of being too slow to fix the cladding crisis

Adrienne Burton has backed up comments made by London Mayor Sadiq Khan

Author: Adam GoacherPublished 26th Mar 2022

A woman from Bexhill says the Government has been far too slow to fix the cladding crisis.

Adrienne Burton lives in the Landmark apartment complex, which is covered in potentially lethal cladding.

She tells Greatest Hits Radio that since the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire in 2017, her and her neighbours are still being left in the dark as to how much progress has been made.

It follows London Mayor Sadiq Khan making the same accusations against the Government earlier this week.

Adrienne said: "Every day I'm reading tweets of families who've had children since all this started, and they're living in one bed flats and can't move. So nothing is quick. It's all far too slow and none of it is our doing at all.

"Are we staying here? We think we're going to be staying here. How are they doing it? Are they going to scaffold to whole building and take all of it of? They have to wrap us up, so what are they going to wrap us up in? Is it going to be see through? Is it going to be dark for a year?"

A spokesperson for The Department for Levelling Up, Housing and Communities says the claims are "unfounded" and the Government is making progress.

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