Presumably the panels met the regulations at the time.
Did the steel that melted in the twin towers meet spec and building regs? Rhetorical question.
Lets hope the lessons learnt are actually implemented. I suspect they wont be once rhe focus moves to something else.
there is something here that i think the media is missing. If you look on the Council's website, the cladding work was done under a building notice. That notice records the work as "completed Not approved" no one is focussing on that in the media.
did building control not approve the work because they knew about the panels? if so why did they not take enforcement action?
of course they may not have approved for other reasons but to my thinking there are two routes for this to take
Regulations today ARE sufficient and they were not enforced properly ( in which case you have to ask why: failure of council, enforcement powers not strong enough....) or
Regs are not adequate and have to be amended.
I have no clue which but there is something not quite right with the building control notice for the cladding, that's for sure. Anyone can see this, search on RBKC building control site for the tower