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The Grenfell Tower fire was one of the most devastating tragedies in recent UK history, leading to the loss of 72 lives and highlighting significant failures in fire safety regulations and housing man...

The Grenfell Tower Phase 2 report was published on 4 September.  Despite searing criticism of the organisations that owned and managed the Tower, the Inquiry has missed an opportunity to recommend fu...

It has been over seven years since the fire at Grenfell Tower and yet there are still dangerous cladding systems on buildings. As the recent fire in Dagenham in August 2024 shows, as long as dangerous...

On 2 February 2022, the government published a much-trailed White Paper called Levelling Up the United Kingdom. While housing took up only a small part of the total document, there were still some...

On Thursday 22 April, leading counsel for the Grenfell Tower Inquiry read out some key extracts from the witness statements of our client, Shahid [Shah] Ahmed. The Inquiry heard eloquent and powerf...

The Building Safety Bill  The Building Safety Bill is one of a raft of measures brought in or proposed as a result of the Grenfell Tower Fire in 2017.   It was drafted in part to implement Dame...

Fire safety works in blocks of flats are big news at the moment.   These works are not just cladding removal but all sorts of other things. Leaseholders are potentially being asked to pay through th...

For today’s part of Housing week, Head of Housing Andrew Brookes answers some frequently asked questions related to service charges for Council and Local Authority leaseholders. https://soundclou...