The fire started on a construction site where a 5 storey timber-frame building had been partially constructed. The fire was so intense that it soon spread to neighbouring flats meaning over 300 people had to be evacuated.

Martin Clarke, Chief Executive, said "The lessons of the Colindale fire a few years ago which leapt over to student accommodation and threatened the national police computer at Hendon have clearly not been learned. There have been a succession of arson-attack and accidental fires since then and only a few weeks ago there was a smaller, but similar incident, in High Wycombe. There is clearly a major threat of instant collateral damage and a risk to workers and nearby communities.

These types of structure are clearly an unsustainable failed experiment. We call on Government, the GLA, and the HCA to act now."