Plans to strip a high-rise building in Greenwich of Grenfell-like cladding have been put in to the council.

Durkan Ltd has applied to replace cladding on the top two storeys of a building in Norman Road.

The building, Babbage Point, is eight storeys tall and has 85 homes in it. It was approved in 2012 by the council’s planning team.

Now, the developer has said the cladding, which covers the top two floors, needs to be replaced.

According to its application: “The top 2 floors of the building have been clad with a flat Aluminium Composite Material (ACM) rainscreen cladding.”

ACM cladding has been deemed unsafe since it was thought to have helped the fire spread at Grenfell in June last year, claiming 72 lives.

The developer has said there would be no visual changes as the replacement cladding would be the same colour.

In June, this newspaper revealed there were 28 privately-owned buildings in Greenwich that had unfit cladding.

In details obtained through a Freedom of Information (FoI) request, Greenwich Council said it has carried out 313 risk assessments at buildings it manages since the Grenfell tragedy.

This has cost £435,000 but none of these buildings have been found to have unfit cladding on them.

Durkan’s application is being considered by planning officers at the council.