ACM CLADDING RECORDS

8 Artillery Row

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categoriesBuildings, Kingspan K15

Building / block / estate

8 Artillery Row

Address

8 Artillery Row, London SW1P 1RZ

Local Authority

Westminster

Storeys / height

Cladding

Phenol formaldehyde (phenolic) insulation; polystyrene producing droplets of molten polymer; missing cavity barriers behind the red brick facade; Massaranduba timber decking on treated pine subframe to balconies and roof terraces; exposed Kingspan Kooltherm and combustible plywood roof lining at the 9th floor plant room. EWS1 rated B2

Owner / Landlord

Avon Ground Rents Ltd

Original design architect

Make Architects (competition won 2012; reconstruction 2014 or 2015; 22 apartments). INFERENCE from matching descriptions - the FTT names no original architect. Project page

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Remediation ref/date

LON/00BK/BSA/2024/0004

Remediation lead

AFL Architects (appointed circa 2021) and HYDROCK (Technical Design Note 25/06/2021). Watts Group project manager from 14/04/2021
Make Architects (the conversion IS the external wall)

Litigation

Remediation order against Avon Ground Rents Ltd, 13 leaseholder applicants. TRIBUNAL CRITICISED AFL: they did not inspect the building or commission scale plans and relied on client information and planning drawings containing inaccuracies. Hydrock flagged that the best achievable was a B1 and recommended a survey that was never done

Source / Evidence / Links

  • LON/00BK/BSA/2024/0004 FTT decision 18/11/2024
  • https://www.buildington.co.uk/buildings/4004/england/london-sw1p/4-16-artillery-row/8-artillery-row
  • AFL Architects - REMEDIATION ARCHITECT - NOT original
    Basis: Now FIVE buildings, all remediation. At 8 Artillery Row the FTT CRITICISED them: appointed circa 2021 to draw detailed remedial plans, they did not inspect the building or commission scale plans and relied on client information and planning drawings containing inaccuracies. A cautionary precedent on remediation scope
  • Make Architects - ORIGINAL ARCHITECT
  • Hydrock - REMEDIATION fire and technical design - NOT architects
    Basis: Technical Design Note 25/06/2021 flagged that the penthouse external walls contained combustible materials and that the best outcome achievable was a B1, recommending a further survey that was not undertaken
  • Bell Building Projects - REMEDIATION contractor
8 Artillery Row. The building includes addresses 4, 10 & 12 Artillery Row.

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