Cladding on a “high risk” high rise building in Watford tested following the Grenfell Tower tragedy has been declared safe.

Following the fire at the Grenfell Tower residential block in North Kensington - which left at least 80 people dead and scores more injured - six residential properties in Hertfordshire were identified as potentially having the same aluminium composite material (ACM) thought to have enabled the fire to spread so rapidly.

Of these six, one has been confirmed as having the hazardous cladding – the four-storey Able House in Hemel Hempstead. As a result, the cladding is now being replaced with a safer render.

However no traces of ACM were found at Rainbow House, Water Lane, Watford, following extensive fire safety testing.

Four further properties in Hatfield, Stevenage and Hemel Hempstead were also declared safe.