Councils Stretch Housing Budgets To Fund Fire Safety Work

The government has still given no financial help to local councils to carry out essential fire safety work, forcing councils to stretch already limited housing budgets to cover the cost. In a survey of 31 local councils whose tower blocks failed fire safety checks since the Grenfell Tower disaster, none said they had received financial assistance from central government to carry out work. That is despite top officials telling a committee of MPs that four councils would receive help “in the next few weeks” on 15 January, almost three months ago. Housing minister Dominic Raab said “there may be circumstances where government would consider the removal of financial restrictions to enable works to go ahead”. Read more on Inside Housing.

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