He said: "So far the cladding from 34 high-rise buildings, in 17 local authority areas, has failed the combustibility test.”

Camden Council have become the first authority to evacuate residents over fire safety concerns and have asked those living in four high-rise buildings to leave. "The decision by Camden Council to evacuate four of the five towers on the Chalcots Estate was because the failed testing of the external cladding was compounded by multiple other fire safety failures which the fire inspection team found within the buildings," he said. Georgia Gould, leader of Camden Council, told the Camden New Journal that tests had shown that the outer cladding panels on five tower blocks in the estate were made of aluminium panels with a polyethylene core.
All 800 homes in the five tower blocks of the Chalcots Estate, in Camden, London, are evacuated after the cladding was declared to have failed fire safety tests.