The council department responsible for checking the
safety of the Grenfell Tower refurbishment was “swamped” with work as
austerity-driven cuts slashed staff numbers and the key surveyor was left handling
130 projects at once, the public inquiry in the disaster has heard. John Hoban,
senior building control surveyor at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
(RBKC), said councillors had signed off substantial cuts to the building
control department piling work on the remaining staff. Read more on the
Guardian website.
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