A city councillor has claimed the powers to ensure funding is properly checked and if necessary replaced were still with ministers, despite concerns.
The power to make Glasgow buildings with flammable cladding safer is in the hands of the Scottish Government , a meeting heard.
Seventy two people died in London’s Grenfell Tower disaster in 2017 as the building was clad in combustible material.Councillor Ann Jenkins, Labour, asked what action has been taken to address the issue of dangerous cladding on some of the city’s buildings pointing out living with the risk causes people anxiety.
"It is therefore Scottish Ministers who hold the legislative responsibility for undertaking action from identifying external cladding that could create or exacerbate risks of fire and to addressing these risks - but also to establish a register recording whether a building’s claddings has been assessed and that remedial works have been completed.”
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