Bereaved families have been told by that Grenfell Tower will be demolished.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner on Wednesday night met with the families of the 72 people who died in the fire in 2017.
It is understood she told them that the Kensington tower block will be razed to ground level and a memorial erected on the site.
But no work will begin before the eighth anniversary of the tragic inferno on June 14.
An official announcement is expected on Friday.
But Grenfell United, which represents some of the bereaved and survivors of fire, claimed the voices of many loved ones had been ignored.
They said they had repeatedly urged housing secretaries over the years to “consult the bereaved and survivors meaningfully before reaching a decision on the tower”.
In a statement on Wednesday night, they said: “Angela Rayner could not give a reason for her decision to demolish the tower.
“She refused to confirm how many bereaved and survivors had been spoken to in the recent, short four-week consultation.
“But judging from the room alone - the vast majority of whom were bereaved - no one supported her decision. But she claims her decision is based on our views.”
The spokesperson said the meeting “showed just how upset bereaved and survivors are about not having their views heard or considered in this decision”.
They added: “Ignoring the voices of bereaved on the future of our loved ones’ gravesite is disgraceful and unforgivable”.
However Grenfell Next of Kin, a separate group representing some bereaved families, said while the decision around the tower’s future was “obviously a very sensitive and difficult” one, families “understand the hard facts around safety.”
A spokesperson said Ms Rayner had “announced the decision that the tower will have to be carefully deconstructed”.
They added: “For the next of kin of the deceased, that building is a shrine and the death place of their immediate families, their brothers, sisters, mothers, fathers, husbands, wives and children - but they understand the hard facts around safety.”
Fire ripped through the 24-storey North Kensington tower block in on June 14, 2017, killing 72 people and sparking a national scandal over building safety and material standards.
An inquiry into the blaze found that victims, bereaved and survivors were “badly failed”, according to a report released last September.
The tower block was covered in combustible products because of the “systematic dishonesty” of firms that made and sold the cladding and insulation, inquiry chairman Sir Martin Moore-Bick said.
He said the “simple truth” is that all the deaths were avoidable and that those who lived in the tower were “badly failed” by authorities “in most cases through incompetence but, in some cases, through dishonesty and greed”.
Police and prosecutors said, in May last year, that investigators would need until the end of 2025 to complete their inquiry, with final decisions on potential criminal charges by the end of 2026.
The near 10-year wait for justice has been described by families as “unbearable”.
Three years ago Ms Rayner’s Tory predecessor Michael Gove shelved plans to demolish the block following outcry from survivors and bereaved families.
Almost 3,000sq metres of space has been set aside for the memorial, which includes the ground on which the tower block stands.
A 2022 report by the Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission included suggestions from members of the community on what the memorial could look like.
They included keeping the building as a “vertical garden” with a high level platform and hanging plants.
Last December, Kensington and Chelsea Council approved extending a ban on contractors involved in the Grenfell Tower fire from future contracts.
The decision was finalised during a leadership meeting on December 11 and comes after the proposal was announced last month.
Netflix also announced a documentary last week that will look at the chain of events leading up to the fire and hear from the families and survivors impacted.
With a working title of Grenfell, the 90-minute film comes from Rogan Productions, who have made a documentary about Nicola Bulley, who went missing while walking her dog in Lancashire, and the killing of Stephen Lawrence for the BBC.
