Ealing Hotel To Remove Cladding Following Grenfell Fears

Premier Inn investing millions to replace coverings on 12 hotels

( Premier Inn Ealing)

Premier Inn is replacing the cladding on 12 of its hotels including the Ealing site on the Uxbridge Road.

It follows the tower block blaze at Grenfell which took the lives of 72 people last year. All Premier Inn buildings over 18 metres tall were tested to find out if the panels contained the same flammable materials in the tower block. Aluminium composite cladding, similar to that which caused the devastating fire was found, however Premier has stressed their cladding appeared to be less flammable than that used on Grenfell Tower.

A spokesman for Premier Inn said: “We immediately and voluntarily took the decision to have our hotels with cladding over 18m assessed by independent fire safety experts in the days following the Grenfell tragedy. A small number of our hotels were no-longer deemed to meet building regulations but are entirely and unequivocally safe to operate – irrespective of the exterior cladding.

“Although our hotels have been independently assessed as entirely safe to operate irrespective of the cladding used and we’ve not received any request to change the cladding on any of our hotels, we’ve nonetheless taken the voluntary decision to replace it on the small number of properties involved and we’re doing this by working with the relevant local authorities, contractors, developers and landlords.”

Other properties affected include Hemel Hempstead Central, Brentford, Gatwick North Terminal, Heathrow T4, Tottenham Hale, London Waterloo and Bristol Lewins Mead.  

June 21st 2018