The chief executive of the Royal Borough of Kensington
and Chelsea told survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster that the council had
been behaving like “a property developer masquerading as a local authority”,
MPs have been told. Barry Quirk, who took over at the borough one week after
the fire in June 2017, made the comment in a private meeting with Grenfell
United, the survivors’ group, one of its leading members, Edward Daffarn, told
the House of Commons housing select committee.“Think about that,” Daffarn told
the MPs. “They were property developers masquerading as a local authority. They
failed to keep us safe because they had higher priorities – getting their hands
on the land, this massive goldmine they had.” Read more on the Guardian
website.
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