A post-Grenfell report has highlighted the Ledbury Estate safety audit as evidence of “deep flaws in the current system.”

The government-commissioned report on tower block safety, which was presented to parliament by Dame Judith Hackitt, said the loss of paperwork regarding “essential safety work” on the estate was among reasons the high rise and complex buildings’ system needed to be overhauled.

The review’s final report was commissioned to make recommendations on the future of the systems regulations.

“We have seen further evidence confirming the deep flaws in the current system: lack of an audit trail as to whether essential safety work was carried out on the Ledbury Estate, and other large panel systems tower blocks,” the report read.

“Subsequent events have reinforced the findings of the interim report, and  strengthened my conviction that there is a need for a radical rethink of the whole system and how it works.”

Ledbury Estate Action Group co-founder Danielle Gregory, who provided written evidence for the report, said she discovered the council had “lost” the safety audit paper work, but Southwark Council say there were never given the paper work when they "acquired" the building from the Greater London Authority in the 1980s.

Ms Gregory, who lived in Ledbury Estate for eight years before being moved by the council, said the group had called for the council to be open with their processes.

“Southwark Council is always very selective with transparency about releasing documents, she told the News Shopper.

“We have asked for an open-door policy.”

Southwark council has spent more than £7.3 million on “emergency works” on four-towers at Ledbury Estate.

But Ms Gregory was concerned over recent council documents which shows the wider estate, with eight further blocks, is being considered for redevelopment.

“The council is using the towers as an excuse to socially cleanse the estate. Residents haven’t been consulted at all,” she said.

Councillor Stephanie Cryan cabinet member for housing disagreed with Ms Gregory's claims, and said the council did not withold documents.

"I disagree with and refute any assertion of ‘social cleansing’ by Ms Gregory. Our focus is on the structural integrity of the buildings today and in the future."

While the council did not have "evidence of any paperwork passed to the council from the GLC at the time," all of the council's tower blocks had up to date Fire Risk Assessments. 

"These documents are available for the public to view at any time, nothing is withheld. Whatever happens to the estate in future will be to make better, safer council homes and any residents who had to move while we carry out works will have the Right to Return,” she said. 

The council documents say secure tenants are given the right to return to their refurbished home or in the event of redevelopment to a suitable home on the new site.