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Tag Archives: Grenfell Tower
Eight Brick by Brick-built flats issued with fire safety order
EXCLUSIVE: More problems for residents who have shared-ownership in homes built by the council’s omnishambles of a development company. By housing correspondent, BARRATT HOLMES Eight flats built by Brick by Brick, Croydon Council’s useless housing company that helped to bankrupt … Continue reading
Posted in Brick by Brick, Business, Colm Lacey, Croydon Council, Fairfield, Housing, Jo Negrini, Mayor Jason Perry
Tagged Brick by Brick, Colm Lacey, Croydon, Croydon Council, Crystal Palace and Upper Norwood, Grenfell Tower, Heathfield Gardens, LFB, London Borough of Croydon, London Fire Brigade, Mayor Jason Perry, Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005, South Croydon
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‘Heartbroken’ Hallam Court residents in call for urgent action
Selhurst residents who saw their homes on fire last week say that they have known since 2020 that the materials used on the building’s exterior were unsafe. Today, the sixth anniversary of the Grenfell disaster, they said: ‘We cannot risk … Continue reading
Posted in Community associations, Housing, London Fire Brigade, Selhurst
Tagged Grenfell, Grenfell Tower, Hallam Court, Selhurst, Southern Housing
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Grenfell six years on: 80% of social blocks still lack sprinklers
Research published by Inside Housing shows that, six years since the Grenfell Tower fire, fewer than 1-in-5 high-rise social housing blocks have been fitted with sprinklers and only 1-in-8 with fire alarms, key pieces of equipment which the fire services … Continue reading
Posted in Housing, London Fire Brigade, Property, Selhurst
Tagged Grenfell, Grenfell Tower, Hallam Court, Inside Housing, LFB, London Fire Brigade, Peter Apps, Selhurst
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Fire Brigade appeals for your input in public consultation
People in Croydon have until July 25 to shape the Fire Brigade’s plan for the rest of this decade. Borough Commander Mark Edwards is urging the public to get involved and give their feedback on Your London Fire Brigade, the … Continue reading
‘We are enraged at government whose sole focus is profit’
Grenfell United, the group representing the bereaved and survivors, this morning issued the following statement, on the fifth anniversary of the tower block fire in London that claimed the lives of 72 people Today, we remember the 72 beautiful souls … Continue reading
Posted in Charity, Community associations, Housing, London-wide issues
Tagged Grenfell Tower, Grenfell United
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Five years after Grenfell tragedy, firefighters’ job cuts continue
On the anniversary of the Grenfell Tower tragedy in which 72 people died in 2017, the Fire Brigades Union has revealed that another 221 firefighter positions have been cut. The union says that these latest job cuts come after several … Continue reading
Posted in London Fire Brigade
Tagged FBU, Fire Brigades Union, Grenfell Tower, LFB, London Fire Brigade, Matt Wrack
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Bussetti found guilty over his ‘disgusting’ Grenfell video
Paul Bussetti, the South Norwood man who posted a “disgusting” and “abhorrent” video of a Grenfell Tower model on social media, has been given a 10-week suspended jail sentence after admitting his crime. Bussetti, 49, pleaded guilty at Westminster Magistrates’ … Continue reading
Posted in Crime, South Norwood, South Norwood Tourist Board
Tagged Grenfell Tower, Paul Bussetti, South Norwood
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Prime Minister refuses to offer help on Bridge House cladding
Tory Prime Minister Boris Johnson, who thinks nothing of getting rich party donors to pay for lavish gold flock wallpaper costing tens of thousands of pounds for his Downing Street flat, has this week refused to offer help to hard-pressed … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Business, Croydon Central, Housing, Sarah Jones MP, Surrey Street
Tagged Boris Johnson, Bridge House, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon Central, Grenfell Tower, Sarah Jones MP, Tory
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Judge Bean orders retrial over notorious Grenfell video
Paul Bussetti, a regular at the South Norwood Conservative Club who became nationally notorious after filming a video of a cardboard model of Grenfell Tower being burned on a bonfire, must face a re-trial, a High Court judge has ruled. … Continue reading
Hold very tight: will Buss give Brick by Brick a rough ride?
Our Town Hall reporter, KEN LEE, on how the local council troubleshooter who was brought in to deal with Kensington and Chelsea’s finances in the aftermath of the Grenfell Tower fire has now been hired by Croydon In the final … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Business, Colonnades, Croydon Council, Croydon Park Hotel, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Paul Scott, Simon Hall, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, BxB Review, Chris Buss, Croydon, Croydon Council, Grenfell Tower, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Paul Scott, Simon Hall, Tony Newman
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‘Utter disgrace’: 2,000 buildings still at risk from cladding
Three years since 72 people died in the Grenfell Tower disaster, more than 2,000 high-risk residential buildings are still covered with dangerous cladding, according to a parliamentary committee. The situation has been slammed as “an utter disgrace” by the Fire … Continue reading
Residents living in fear of fire in council-run housing blocks
Despite condemning office-to-flat conversions, Croydon Council has been using three such buildings to provide temporary housing. A year after a Fire Brigade inspection found the blocks unsafe, improvement works have still not finished, leaving residents forced to live on a … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Croydon Council, Croydon North, London Fire Brigade, Norbury, Planning, Thornton Heath
Tagged Allison Butler, Concord House, Croydon, Croydon Council, Grenfell Tower, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Norbury, Steve Reed OBE, Sycamore House, Thornton Heath, Windsor House
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