Victoria Robinson, 37, may never be able to sell her home — because, at the current rate of repairs, it will take more than a century to fix blocks of flats with a high fire risk.
The Science Museum executive’s flat in east London is one of up to 1½ million left unmortgageable after the Grenfell Tower fire exposed a national failure of building regulations. On her five-storey block, the balconies, insulation and cladding — including the kind that fuelled the Grenfell inferno — are all flammable. She faces paying up to £50,000 for remedial work before banks will lend on her flat. “It is a horrible situation and there is no way out,” Robinson said.
New analysis has found that, at the present rate
