“Combustible” cladding will be removed from building containing a primary school and a student hall of residence.

Somerset Court in Aldenham Street is the site of St Mary and St Pancras Primary School, as well as 168 student rooms.

Planning documents show that Unite Students recently submitted an application to Camden Council to remove “combustible” cladding from the building.

These state: “It is proposed that areas of combustible material on the building is to be replaced with material that has non-combustible properties.

“These include the existing insulated render system and softwood timber boarding that is currently in place on the building.”

They add that the plans will “enhance fire safety measures of the building”, as well as modernising the way it looks.

The applicant also promised that the new cladding system would comprise materials that are classified as “non-combustible”.

Unsafe cladding has been identified and removed from buildings around the country following the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, in which 72 people died after fire spread across the outside of the block of flats.

The inquiry into the fire concluded in early September. Chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick found the blaze was the result of “decades of failure” by government and the construction industry to act on the dangers of flammable materials on high-rise buildings.

Somerset Court, close to Euston station, was built in 2005, with the primary school located on the lower two floors, and student flats occupying the upper five floors.

More details about the plans can be find on the council’s planning portal, under reference 2024/3810/P.