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
Bishopsgate Institute launch Tower Blocks UK archive
In early 2022 we began discussions with the Bishopsgate Institute about the best way to preserve and archive the history of Tower Blocks...
May 24, 2023
International Stair Descend Day 19th May
Tower Blocks UK are official supporters of International Stair Descend Day (ISDD) which will take place on Friday 19th May 2023. This...
May 18, 2023
Grenfell: Steve McQueen
Tower Blocks UK were invited to a screening of Grenfell by Steve McQueen at the Serpentine Gallery in Hyde Park. In December 2017, 6...
Apr 9, 2023
Grenfell System Failure
In March we went to watch the play Grenfell: System Failure at the Marylebone Theatre. The play is based entirely on the words of those...
Mar 31, 2023
