A firefighter assesses the damage to a block of flats on Freshwater Road in Dagenham, east London, on Tuesday, caused by a fire that engulfed the building on Monday morning. More than 100 residents were evacuated. Documents seen by the London Fire Brigade show that the high rise was undergoing “remedial” work to remove and replace “non-compliant cladding” on the fifth and sixth floors. The latest government figures show that fewer than one third of the 4360 buildings, 11 metres or higher, with unsafe cladding have completed the remediation process — this was “deeply unsatisfactory”, the Bishop of Barking, the Rt Revd Lynne Cullens, told Premier this week. She called for more to be done to prioritise building safety. “Clearly people who are living in those blocks and in those places will themselves feel unsafe at this time, so we need a swift and reassuring government response to this fire and also to the final report of the [Grenfell] inquiry next week”