Exeter firm Mi-Space is set to replace composite cladding on three towers

Plymouth apartment towers

A Plymouth housing association has appointed a contractor to replace combustible cladding on three of its towers.

Exeter-based firm Mi-Space is set to replace composite cladding on the three 16-storey towers (pictured) known as Lynher, Tamar and Tavy House respectively. 

Plymouth Community Homes (PCH) appointed the contractor via a negotiated procedure without prior publication due to the 鈥渆xtreme urgency鈥�.

Following last June's Grenfell tower fire in west London, PCH commissioned a review of the buildings, which identified the panels "as being of a combustible nature and unsafe from a fire engineering perspective, placing the occupants at an immediate and significant risk in the event of a fire breaking out".

Mi-Space, which is a subsidiary of the Midas Group, is being paid between 拢7.7m and 拢8.2m to carry out the works.

Housing associations are eligible to apply for funding from the goverrnment鈥檚 拢400m fund to help replace combustible cladding on social housing.

In May, it was revealed this funding had been taken from existing affordable housing programmes.

 

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