Still reeling from the Grenfell Tower tragedy - and where it wasn’t before, the word ‘reeling’ is now apt - we have this week woken up first to the news of another terror attack and then just days later to a toothless Queen’s speech written without the guaranteed backing of…
As the causes of the fire at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington last week begin to become clearer, government bodies and the property industry are asking themselves some searching questions about how to prevent tragedies like this in future.
Everything changed on the morning of 14 June 2017. Grenfell Tower was UK housing’s 9/11. From now on, more homes need to be built - and be built better. Hang the ideology.
The property industry has responded to LandAid’s urgent two-week appeal to help those affected by the Grenfell Tower tragedy by pledging more than £120,000 to go directly to the British Red Cross’s London Fire Relief Fund.
A joint venture of the Berkeley Group and Prudential has sold 68 flats at its Kensington Row apartment development to rehouse survivors of the Grenfell Tower fire.
The horrifying event last week at Grenfell Tower in North Kensington and resulting anger will force the industry and Government to face up to the challenge of funding for the delivery of affordable housing, as well as its quality and safety.
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