AS more and more examples of buildings of all types, including high rise flats, emerge clad with highly combustible materials, is it not about time the real reason for the recent Grenfell Tower disaster was examined?

For far too long UK governments have been in thrall of the green lobby groups and their climate change mania leading to commitments to ridiculous carbon reduction targets, as well as the high profile (entirely predictable) fiasco over air quality issues when UK drivers were encouraged by flawed government policy to switch over to diesel vehicles, we now have the tragic after-effects of similarly flawed insulation policy.

By all means cut down on the unnecessary use of energy (why are office blocks and shops still lit up like Christmas trees all night long?), but let’s stop the dangerous requirement to over-insulate properties, turning them into tinderboxes, as we now see many of the materials used may well turn out to be “tomorrow’s asbestos”.

The manufacturers of electrical household goods should also be consulted as to whether or not the energy performance targets they work to after the green lobby input is compromising in any way product safety, as the current spate of household goods combusting (the initial cause of the Grenfell Tower disaster) suggests all is not right in that sector.

Mark Warters, Independent councillor, Osbaldwick and Derwent ward, York