Grenfell Tower Timeline: The Key Events

An investigation reveals that Kensington and Chelsea council made £129 million from selling property in the years leading to the Grenfell fire tragedy. This money could have been spent on the tower’s renovation works, we established, but instead cuts were made to the budget, including saving £300,000 by using cheaper, more combustible cladding. The council also spent more than £60 million investing in new buildings in the years leading up to the fire on June 14, 2017, which killed 72 people. Survivors of the inferno have accused Kensington and Chelsea of “acting more like a property developer than a council” when it should have been focused on fire safety at Grenfell. The Bureau of Investigative Journalism details exactly when key decisions about the tower's renovation and how to finance it were made, alongside the council's property deals.

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