Giant ACM-clad Ballymore block hit by blaze

New Providence Wharf blaze Ballymore London Fire Brigade

Ballymore subsidiary had been ‘named and shamed’ by the government in January for failing to remove cladding

More than a hundred firefighters are fighting a blaze at a 19-storey residential block in East London built by Ballymore which is clad in Grenfell-style ACM.

The London Fire Brigade said there were 20 fire engines and around 125 firefighters at the scene of the fire at New Providence Wharf in Poplar.

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