'Grenfell-style' cladding at one of Cardiff Bay's biggest residential developments is to be replaced.
Residents at Prospect Place had complained they were unable to sell their properties after Bellway Homes confirmed last year that aluminium composite material (ACM) - similar to the material used on Grenfell Tower - was used on the building.
Now the developer has said it will replace the cladding on many of the blocks of Prospect Place with a safer material.
Planning applications from Bellway, which have been approved by Cardiff council, say the AMC cladding at Prospect Place blocks A, B, C, D1, D3, E and T will be replaced with a new Rockpanel cladding system.
A letter to the council from the developer says: "Following the Grenfell disaster, Bellway have taken a corporate decision not to use aluminium cladding on any of their developments above 18m in height.
"As such, they are seeking to replace the AMC cladding on a number of developments with a Rockpanel cladding system. This has a significantly better fire safety rating and is therefore considered more appropriate from this perspective and also from a general design approach."
The new Rockpanel cladding would have the same colour as the current cladding, the application says.
Bellway has previously said it believes it complied with building regulations at the time ACM cladding was put up on Prospect Place.
The developer said it has paid for additional safety measures to be put in place at the development.
