Grenfell Survivors Call For Urgent Ban On Combustible Building Materials

 The bereaved and survivors of the Grenfell disaster have called for an urgent ban on the use of combustible materials in buildings after they said evidence at the public inquiry had revealed “fraud”, “cover-up” and “incompetence” in the construction industry. Their lawyer told the inquiry chairman, Sir Martin Moore-Bick, that methods of checking safety of materials had been revealed as “positively dangerous” and that a key independent testing centre for construction products had been “complicit in manufacturers’ frauds”. Read more on the Guardian website.

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/sep/13/grenfell-survivors-call-for-urgent-ban-on-combustible-building-materials

Grenfell: Survivors Condemn New Fire Safety Laws

New laws that could leave flat owners facing bills for fire safety measures are "indefensible", say Grenfell Tower survivors and bereaved relatives. The Fire Safety Act is aimed at making homes safer following the 2017 blaze, in which 72 people died. But a push to include more financial protections for leaseholders was defeated in a Parliamentary vote, despite a large Tory rebellion. The government has made a £5bn fund available to remove cladding. Read more on the BBC website.

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Grenfell Tower: Survivors Lodge Multimillion-Pound Court Claim

A multimillion-pound personal injury claim has been lodged by survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire who were made homeless after the blaze. Monetary claims for loss and damage were lodged at the High Court just before Christmas. Kensington and Chelsea Council is one of 22 organisations that are the focus of the complainants' law suit. Read more on the BBC website.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-55650751

Flats Chosen To House Grenfell Survivors Found To Have ‘High’ Fire Risk

A block of flats chosen by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea Council (RBKC) to house survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire has been found to have “high” fire risk and needs immediate work to make it safe. A fire risk assessment of the Hortensia Road block in Kensington, which is currently housing 20 people and was set aside for the survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire, also found that there was "no evidence" that the cladding of the building had been inspected. Read more on Inside Housing.

https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/block-of-flats-chosen-to-house-grenfell-survivors-found-to-have-high-fire-risk-62729?utm_source=Housing60&utm_medium=email&utm_content=article_link&utm_campaign=H60

Grenfell Survivors Offered Discounts On Homes Under New Ownership Deals

Survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire will be offered special homeownership deals, including significant discounts on the purchase of new properties by the government and Kensington and Chelsea Council. In a letter to former residents of the tower, housing secretary James Brokenshire and Kim Taylor-Smith, deputy leader at the council, outlined the two offers. The Enhanced Portable Discount will allow residents to use a discount to buy a home on the open market anywhere in the country apart from the one they currently live in. It will involve discounts of up to £160,000, £50,000 more than the Right to Buy. Residents will also be offered the Grenfell Assisted Home Ownership Scheme. Read more on Inside Housing.

https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/home/home/grenfell-survivors-offered-discounts-on-homes-under-new-ownership-deals-61828