ONCE work to replace dangerous cladding on two Oxford tower blocks is finished later this year, they will be among only a handful across the country to be completed.
Only three of 160 social housing blocks which were found to have dangerous cladding on them following tests conducted after the Grenfell Tower disaster in June 2017 have had it replaced.
The Oxford Mail reported last week how work to strip and then replace cladding on Evenlode and Windrush Towers in Blackbird Leys has started.
It is expected to be completed by July.
The council is stripping flammable Vitrabond cladding and will replace it with Opus Ouroclad material.
The £1m work will be carried out by Fortem, the company responsible for the council’s £21m repairs project on five towers, including Evenlode and Windrush, across Oxford.
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