June 14 2017
At 12.54am, a name is made to the London Fireplace Brigade reporting a hearth has damaged out in a fourth-floor flat.
Barely half an hour later, at 1.29am, flames have climbed to the highest flooring of the 24-storey block.
Photos and photographs of the devastating hearth make headlines the world over.
June 28 2017
Retired Courtroom of Attraction choose Sir Martin Moore-Bick is appointed to steer a public inquiry into the catastrophe.
July 28 2017
The Authorities pronounces an impartial assessment into constructing laws will probably be led by Dame Judith Hackitt.
It’s alleged that they’re advanced, unclear and go away sufficient wriggle room for contractors to chop corners on security.
September 19 2017
The Metropolitan Police announce a widening of their legal investigation, as detectives contemplate particular person in addition to company manslaughter costs.
November 30 2017
A petition, backed by singer Adele, is ready up urging then prime minister Theresa Could to nominate extra panel members alongside the inquiry chairman.
It’s feared that Sir Martin will lack priceless first-hand expertise of life as a social tenant in a multicultural neighbourhood.
December 22 2017
Theresa Could turns down the request from survivors and bereaved households to overtake the general public inquiry, saying Sir Martin has the ‘essential experience to undertake its work’.
January 29 2018
Maria del Pilar Burton, a 74-year-old survivor often called Pily, dies in palliative care. She had been in a care house, unable to return to her husband Nicholas, for the reason that hearth.
She involves be thought-about the 72nd sufferer of the fireplace.
Could 17 2018
Dame Judith Hackitt recommends ‘basic reform’ to enhance hearth security, in her report, which identifies a ‘race to the underside’ in constructing security practices with value prioritised over security.
Ministers promise to seek the advice of on banning flammable cladding.
Could 21 2018
The inquiry begins seven days of commemoration hearings to the useless, beginning with a heartbreaking tribute to the fireplace’s youngest sufferer, stillborn Logan Gomes.
June 4 2018
Sir Martin’s inquiry begins listening to opening statements from attorneys and a batch of professional stories are launched.
June 14 2018
A 12 months after the fireplace, survivors and bereaved family collect for a church service and observe a minute’s silence by the tower.
They’re joined by rapper Stormzy and, later, then Labour chief Jeremy Corbyn.
June 21 2018
Firefighter proof begins. It ends with then London Fireplace Brigade commissioner Dany Cotton telling the inquiry she would change nothing about her workforce’s response on the evening of the fireplace.
Survivors and the bereaved react with anger.
September 30 2018
The Authorities bans the usage of flamable cladding on all new residential buildings above 18 metres, in addition to colleges, care houses, scholar lodging and hospitals.
October 3 2018
Survivors, those that misplaced household within the hearth and native residents start giving proof on the inquiry.
December 12 2018
The primary part of the inquiry ends.
Could 30 2019
The Prime Minister appoints two new inquiry panel members to sit down alongside Sir Martin within the second part of the probe – a ‘step ahead’ welcomed by survivors.
June 10 2019
Met Police Commander Stuart Cundy says there is no such thing as a assure legal damages will probably be introduced over the fireplace.
He mentioned: ‘Even now, coming as much as the two-year anniversary, there is no such thing as a assure that we may give that there will probably be legal costs.
‘There’s a assure that they (the bereaved and survivors) have our absolute private dedication to do what we are able to to ensure this investigation is fearless, secures all of the proof that it may well and places that proof earlier than the Crown Prosecution Service.’
June 18 2019
Survivors and bereaved households challenge a message on to the Homes of Parliament studying: ‘Two years after Grenfell, this constructing nonetheless hasn’t stored its guarantees £DemandChange.’
This adopted comparable motion within the earlier week when ‘unsafe’ tower blocks throughout the UK have been illuminated with requires the Authorities to take pressing motion.
July 18 2019
A Commons Housing, Communities and Native Authorities Committee report accuses the Authorities of ‘not doing sufficient’ to take away harmful cladding from buildings, greater than two years on from the blaze.
The report additionally says that the £200 million put aside for remediation of personal sector residential buildings with aluminium composite materials (ACM) cladding won’t be sufficient.
October 30 2019
The primary report, on part one of many inquiry, is revealed. It concludes that the principal purpose the flames shot up the constructing so shortly was the flamable aluminium composite materials (ACM) cladding with polyethylene core which acted as a ‘supply of gas’.
It additionally finds the London Fireplace Brigade (LFB)’s preparation for a tower block hearth reminiscent of Grenfell was ‘gravely insufficient’ and its lack of evacuation plan a ‘main omission’.
Its 46 suggestions embody factors on evacuations of high-rise residential buildings, and round communications inside hearth and rescue providers and amongst emergency providers throughout main incidents.
November 6 2019
Jacob Rees-Mogg apologises for suggesting Grenfell victims ought to have used ‘widespread sense’ and ignored hearth service steerage to not go away the burning tower block.
Mr Rees-Mogg, chief of the Home of Commons on the time, faces widespread criticism, together with from Grenfell survivors and Jeremy Corbyn, after he mentioned individuals are safer in the event that they ‘simply ignore what you are advised and go away’, whereas discussing London Fireplace Brigade’s (LFB) ‘stay-put’ coverage.
December 19 2019
Survivors name for a Fireplace Security Invoice to enhance security by compelling constructing homeowners and managers of multi-occupied residential premises to mitigate the dangers of exterior partitions, together with cladding and hearth doorways, to be hurried by Parliament.
February 24 2020
Campaigners urge the Authorities to create a multibillion-pound fund to take away flammable cladding after new analysis instructed greater than half 1,000,000 folks might at the moment be dwelling in unsafe houses.
The Affiliation of Residential Managing Brokers (ARMA), whose members handle greater than 50,000 condo buildings, mentioned 25% of those properties with 50 models or extra have been discovered to have unsafe cladding after it carried out an evaluation utilizing a pattern of its largest buildings.
Throughout the whole portfolio, this equates to 1,375 buildings which can be house to 550,000 folks, it mentioned.
March 11 2020
Chancellor Rishi Sunak pronounces a £1 billion fund to take away unsafe cladding from high-rise residential buildings.
As a part of the spring 2020 Funds, the cash is put ahead for scrapping all flamable cladding supplies from all residential buildings over 18 metres tall.
The Authorities had beforehand dedicated a complete of £600 million to do away with aluminium composite materials (ACM) panels.
April 28 2020
Remediation work to deal with unsafe cladding on high-rise residential blocks pauses ‘on as many as 60% of web sites’ after the Covid-19 outbreak, then communities secretary Robert Jenrick says.
November 2 2020
The Fireplace Brigades Union (FBU) launches a marketing campaign for additional funds for the fireplace and rescue service after analysis reveals there are some 11,200 fewer firefighters than a decade in the past.
November 17 2020
Robert Jenrick mentioned he hopes harmful cladding like that used on the skin of Grenfell Tower will probably be faraway from nearly all of different buildings by the tip of the 12 months.
January 19 2021
The Authorities pledges to arrange a brand new regulator to make sure the protection of constructing supplies after ‘deeply disturbing’ proof of malpractice was heard on the Grenfell Inquiry.
The investigation heard that some corporations concerned within the manufacturing of supplies used on the tower’s flammable cladding intentionally manipulated hearth exams and advertising and marketing supplies.
Now, a regulator for building merchandise will be capable of take away any merchandise from the market that pose a security danger and prosecute any corporations which can be discovered to be flouting guidelines.
January 28 2021
Labour says leaseholders must be protected against the price of changing harmful cladding on houses, with chief Sir Keir Starmer describing the state of affairs as ‘insupportable’.
February 10 2021
Robert Jenrick pronounces a brand new £3.5 billion package deal to pay for the removing of unsafe cladding, however critics – together with some Tories – say it fails to deal with the issues confronted by residents dwelling in unsellable flats in unsafe blocks.
March 19 2021
Scottish housing minister Kevin Stewart says the Scottish Authorities will provide free cladding inspections of high-rise buildings.
April 29 2021
Campaigners condemn the Authorities’s ‘indefensible’ Fireplace Security Invoice, which can grow to be regulation and go away tons of of hundreds of leaseholders paying to take away harmful cladding from their buildings.
October 27 2021
The Authorities decides to cost property builders with earnings of greater than £25 million a levy, to lift the £5 billion fund to take away unsafe cladding, at a charge of 4%.
October 31 2021
The Ministry of Defence says 755 buildings with sleeping lodging for troops within the UK are both absolutely or partially lined in ‘flamable’ cladding.
November 8 2021
Newly-appointed Housing Secretary Michael Gove says the Authorities ‘failed folks at Grenfell’ and didn’t all the time respect the significance of fireplace security, in his first handle to MPs within the function.
January 7 2022
Michael Gove says hundreds of flat homeowners dwelling in buildings taller than 11 metres will probably be spared the price of eradicating harmful cladding.
January 10 2022
Michael Gove says builders should conform to a £4 billion plan to repair harmful cladding on low-rise flats by early March or danger new legal guidelines forcing them to behave.
January 27 2022
The Grenfell Tower Inquiry enters Part 2, which is investigating how the constructing got here to be in a situation which allowed the fireplace to unfold so shortly.
Could 2022
The Authorities says that, regardless of widespread assist for private emergency evacuation plans (Peeps), there stay what it described as vital boundaries to implementing them, on the grounds of proportionality, practicality, and security.
Suggestions to the Authorities following part one of many inquiry included that the homeowners and managers of high-rise residential buildings be required by regulation to organize Peeps for residents unable to self-evacuate.
June 14 2022
Bereaved and survivors collect for the fifth anniversary of the fireplace, a few of them saying households really feel ‘deserted’ amid half a decade of ‘betrayal’ by the housing division as progress on security and alter stays gradual.
March 2023
Michael Gove names corporations he mentioned haven’t but agreed to the remediation contract for fixing constructing questions of safety.
The Housing Secretary calls out the housebuilding corporations after the deadline he beforehand gave to enroll to the settlement aimed toward addressing cladding points following the 2017 Grenfell Tower hearth passes.
He mentioned 39 builders had signed the contract, committing £2 billion to fund repairs to high-rise buildings which have unsafe cladding or different hearth security defects.
July 2023
The long-awaited Social Housing (Regulation) Act passes into regulation, together with a requirement for social housing managers to have skilled {qualifications} – a measure which had been referred to as for by marketing campaign group Grenfell United.
The group says it hopes the regulation can ‘create a legacy for the lives that have been misplaced’, going a way in the direction of ‘the constructive change the social housing sector so desperately wants to enhance circumstances for tenants’.
January 2024
Housing Secretary Michael Gove accuses insulation firm Kingspan of attempting to ‘wriggle out of their tasks’ in relation to the fireplace as he blames the agency for giving capitalism ‘a foul title’.
In a radio interview he says: ‘You may wriggle as a lot as you want, however the proof is obvious.
‘You’ve got to come clean with your accountability. We can’t have individuals who put unsafe merchandise available on the market trying to say ‘are you aware what? it is another person’s fault’. That doesn’t do.’
The corporate has lengthy mentioned that its K15 insulation product made up solely 5% of the insulation within the tower block, and was used with out its advice.
Could 2024
Police verify bereaved households and survivors face ready till the tip of 2026 for a call on potential legal costs over the fireplace.
The Met says their investigators want till the tip of 2025 to finalise their inquiry, and prosecutors will then want a 12 months to resolve whether or not costs might be introduced.
Grenfell United describes the wait, which might stretch to a decade after the catastrophic hearth, as ‘insufferable’.
In the identical month, the publication date for the ultimate report is introduced as September 4.
June 14 2024
On the seventh anniversary of the fireplace, campaigners from the contaminated blood scandal and the Covid Bereaved group be a part of for the memorial stroll.
They again a name for a nationwide oversight mechanism – an impartial public physique to be put in place, accountable for collating, analysing and following up on suggestions from public inquiries.
July 2024
Authorities figures on the finish of July confirmed that of the 4,630 residential buildings in England of 11m (36ft) or greater that had been recognized with unsafe cladding, solely round half (2,299) have been famous as having both began or accomplished remediation works.
Of this, lower than a 3rd (1,350) total have been recorded as having accomplished such works.
August 26 2024
A non-fatal hearth at a block of flats in east London which had been present process work to have cladding eliminated prompts fierce criticism of the gradual tempo of remediation works on harmful budlings.
Grenfell United say the incident in Dagenham ‘highlights the painfully gradual progress of remediation throughout the nation, and a scarcity of urgency for constructing security as a complete’, whereas professional Dame Judith Hackitt describes it as ‘actually regarding’ that so many individuals are nonetheless dwelling in uncertainty and worry concerning the security of their houses.
New Housing Secretary Angela Rayner acknowledges progress on making buildings protected has been too gradual and says there stays ‘far an excessive amount of’ harmful cladding on properties.
She says she is going to meet regulators to ‘press house the urgency to be sure that that work is completed’.
September 4 2024
The ultimate report is revealed.
