The Director of Planning, Richard Wynne, announced that the use of combustible laminates has been banned since the beginning of the week. Now builders who fail to meet the requirements will face a fine of up to 400,000. This prohibition is aimed at the use of flammable aluminum composite panels, and apartment buildings and other residential premises with expanded polystyrene used as outer wall cladding. It is forbidden to be used in hotels and elderly care facilities with two or more floors. . In addition, it is also prohibited to use such flammable building materials in office buildings, shopping centers or other retail places, warehouses, factories and parking lots with three or more floors.
March 2018-72 people died in the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire in London, and after the 2014 fire in the Lacrosse Building in Docklands, Melbourne-Director of Planning Richard Wien issued a new order to ban the use of multi-storey buildings in Victoria For the cladding building materials in the list, surveyors are not allowed to issue building permits. The prohibited materials include aluminum composite panels and expanded polystyrene panels with a polyethylene core greater than 30% (equivalent to at least 70% inert material).
The state government said on Sunday that in the past, the ban only applied to municipal and private surveyors, and it was only a recommended guideline, and that it was not coercive enough. Builders who do not comply with the regulations will face a personal fine of up to $80,000, and a construction company will be fined up to $400,000. The aluminum composite panels used now must be composed of at least 93% of inert materials, compared with the previous minimum ratio of 70%. In 2019, the Victorian Cladding Taskforce (Victorian Cladding Taskforce) proposed a change to the building bill by the former governor and task force leader. The Victorian Building Authority found that more than 500 buildings across the state were covered with extremely or highly dangerous flammable cladding. The state government pledged to allocate $600 million to repair the dangerous cladding on hundreds of high-risk buildings, and the federal government vetoed half of the budget.
