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A damning report into the Grenfell Tower fire has revealed that 'nobody wold have died had the building not been re-clad'.

A 210-page report into the fatal inferno in west London states the fire would have had "little opportunity" to spread from the flat it started in if the exterior of the tower had not been renovated with combustible material.

According to the report, seen by the Evening Standard , the 2014-2016 refurbishment of the tower block failed to meet fire safety standards and "deficiencies" in the new facade helped the fire to spread up the building's exterior.

The report, by fire investigation experts BRE Global, was prepared as part of the police investigation into the June 14 fire at the 24-storey block.

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It also identified flaws with the cavity barriers, window frames, "door closers" and flammable insulation and cladding, the paper said.

The horrifying fire at Grenfell Tower in June last year killed 71 people.

The report goes into detail on how the concrete building was turned into a tinderbox due to the refurbishment.

According to the Evening Standard the first conclusion of the report is that the fire would not have spread beyond Flat 16 — the flat of origin — and would not have claimed even a single life if the original facade of the building had not been re-clad.

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The Standard say the report, which is dated January 31 2018, says: “Grenfell Tower, as originally built, appears to have been designed on the premise of providing very high levels of passive fire protection.

“The original facade of Grenfell Tower, comprising exposed concrete and, given its age, likely timber or metal frame windows, would not have provided a medium for fire spread up the external surface.

"In BRE’s opinion … there would have been little opportunity for a fire in a flat of Grenfell Tower to spread to any neighbouring flats.”

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Colourful panels designed to improve insulation and soften the look of the brutalist concrete block were fitted to the tower in Kensington as part of a £9million refurb which was completed in May 2017.

BRE was asked to achieve three aims:

“To establish the circumstances surrounding as many deaths resulting from the fire as possible;”

“To establish any failings of duty of care owed to victims of the fire, both fatalities and surviving residents;”

“To provide expert witness support in relation to any criminal prosecution, public inquiry or inquest.”

More than 200 tower blocks were found to have similar cladding to Grenfell in the months after the fire.