The apartment block of 60 flats was originally the offices of chemical giant DuPont
The block of flats in Dagenham where a major fire broke out overnight, forcing the evacuation of more than 100 people from their homes, is an office-to-residential conversion,over concerns that some office-to-residential conversions can result in poor quality and sub-standard housing.
The property now consists of 60 individual residential apartments with a communal roof terrace, two commercial units and a gym.as part of the post-Grenfell safety legislative process, roughly one third of the flats in the building are owned by live-in leaseholders, with the rest occupied on a buy-to-let basis.
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