Cladding replacement work has begun on St Francis Tower in Ipswich. Picture: Sarah Lucy Brown - Credit: Archant Work is underway to replace flammable cladding at one of Ipswich’s tallest residential blocks – three years after problems were first uncovered. Scaffolding went up at the 52m-high St Francis Tower, in Franciscan Way, in March and now contractors are on site to remove the remaining cladding material – a high pressure laminate (HPL), different to that on Grenfell –which had been covering around 45% of the building. The current owners of the block first discovered a fire safety issue in summer 2018 when, following the Grenfell disaster, they commissioned an independent test and found its HPL cladding posed a risk.