Government Pauses Debarment Investigations Related to Grenfell
In an announcement on 10th July 2025, the government has decided to pause debarment investigations into seven organisations linked to...
Jul 13
Remembering Grenfell: Lessons We Must Learn
At Tower Blocks UK, we stand with the victims of the Grenfell Tower fire, a tragedy that claimed 72 lives and revealed huge failures in...
Jul 4
Tall Buildings Fire Safety Conference
Blue Light Show at London Olympia 18th June 2025 In mid-June, Tower Blocks UK attended the 9th International Tall Buildings Fire Safety...
Jun 26
Commemorating Grenfell: Reflections 8 years on
This June marks the eighth anniversary of the Grenfell Tower fire, an avoidable tragedy that resulted in the loss of 72 lives. At Tower...
Jun 18
Tower Blocks UK at the Festival for Community Organising: Championing Safety and Community Empowerment
On May 2, 2025, Tower Blocks UK attended the Festival for Community Organising held at Camberwell College of Art in Southwark. The event...
May 5
Tower Blocks UK revisit Barton House
April 2025 Barton House tower block, Bristol In March 2025, we undertook a follow-up visit to Barton House in Bristol, following our...
Apr 28
Solicitor Initiates Petition to Prevent Tragic Falls
I was devastated to hear recently of a further two deaths arising from children falling from the window of a high-rise tower block. The...
Oct 24, 2024
Safeguarding Children In Tower Blocks
In May 2024, two young lives were tragically lost in falls from London tower blocks. The devastating incidents involved 5-year-old Aalim...
Oct 24, 2024
Checklist for tenants in buildings affected by safety problems
There have been a number of high-profile evacuations from buildings in response to structural and fire safety concerns in the wake of the...
Jun 28, 2024
Maddocks House
Tower Blocks UK, in collaboration with London Tenants Federation and Rainbow Collective present 'Maddocks House'. As part of our ongoing...
Jun 24, 2024
Nowhere To Go
Tower Blocks UK has collaborated with the Manchester Cladiators and Claddag campaign groups to share the experiences of Manchester...
May 30, 2024
Tower Blocks UK visit Barton House, Bristol
Tower Blocks UK visited Barton House in Bristol on Saturday 2nd March 2024 to engage with residents and gain insight into the current...
Mar 4, 2024
40 years of tower blocks campaigning
In October 1983 the National Tower Blocks Network held their first conference. The event: attended by over 170 tower block residents,...
Nov 9, 2023
Grenfell: In the words of survivors
Tower Blocks UK visited the National Theatre to watch a powerful verbatim play by Gillian Slovo - Grenfell: In the words of survivors....
Jul 28, 2023
The Ronan Point Scandal: Architecture, Crisis, and Possibility in British Social Democracy, 1968–93
Oxford University have published an essay on the Ronan Point scandal written by urban historian and friend of Tower Blocks UK; Holly...
Jun 8, 2023
