The lesson from Grenfell is simple: stop building residential towers | Simon Jenkins

High-rise blocks are wholly out of place and character. Rather, a modern, sociable city needs neighbourhoods
• Grenfell Tower fire: six victims provisionally identified, say police – latest updates

How many times should we say it? Don’t build residential towers. Don’t make or let people live in them, least of all families. They are antisocial, high-maintenance, disempowering, unnecessary, mostly ugly, and they can never be truly safe. No tower is fireproof. No fire engine can reach up 20 storey...