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Mar 13, 2022

Residents 'living like animals' as cladding is replaced

BBC reports that Conservative MP Stephen McPartland reports the plight of residents as 'a living hell' after blocks around the country...

Mar 13, 2022

Our Friends in the North BBC Radio 4 program

Playwright and screenwriter Peter Flannery rewrites his award winning series Our Friends in the North as an audio drama for BBC Radio 4....

Feb 21, 2022

BBC - The Grenfell Tower Inquiry Podcast

The BBC have been creating a weekly podcast covering the evidence and findings at the Grenfell Tower Inquiry. Presented by Kate Lamble....

Feb 9, 2022

Housing Minister 'started rebuttal operation' two days after Grenfell

Inside Housing and the Guardian report on the failures in the build up to the Grenfell fire. https://www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/news/th...

Jan 26, 2022

RIBA demands clarity on single staircase tower blocks

Kate Youde writes for Architects' Journal on the issue of staircases in high rise residential blocks as RIBA joins with other industry...

Jan 21, 2022

Southwark's high rise blocks record worsening fire safety ratings year on year.

For three years, Ledbury Action Group (former residents of the Ledbury Estate in Peckham) have recorded and analysed the annual fire risk...

Jan 17, 2022

Number 10 investigator implicated in blocking Grenfell information request

Open Democracy have revealed that Sue Gray; tasked with investigating alleged illegal gatherings at number 10, is also implicated in...

Jan 5, 2022

Former government ministers to be called upon in Grenfell Inquiry

The Guardian reports (4th January 2022) that former and current government figures including Eric Pickles, Gavin Barwell and Brandon...

Dec 7, 2021

Beyond Grenfell: A Building Safety Crisis on the Brink

Charlotte Lomas from Sky News reports on the leaseholders facing bankruptcy after their blocks were found to be at risk of fire spread...

Nov 15, 2021

Household Waste: The Squalor blighting Netherthorpe Tower Blocks

Peter MacLoughlin, a tower block resident from Sheffield writes about his experiences challenging the council over waste disposal and...

Nov 5, 2021

Value Engineering: Scenes From the Grenfell Inquiry

On 4th November we were able to see the play Value Engineering: Scenes from the Grenfell Inquiry a verbatim theatre production at the...

Oct 15, 2021

Sir David Amess MP

We are deeply shocked and saddened by the horrendous news that Sir David Amess MP has been murdered at his constituency surgery. Sir...

Sep 6, 2021

The UK's Building Safety Crisis

On 2nd September the BBC aired a Newsnight programme entitled 'The UK's Building Safety Crisis'. The programme highlights the vast...

Jul 22, 2021

Grenfell United highlight 'Rebel Residents'

Grenfell United have pledged to highlight and bring attention to housing campaigners dubbed as 'rebel residents' by the Royal Borough of...

Jul 1, 2021

A Tragedy of Neoliberal Deregulation

Natasha Lennard writes for The Intercept on the analogies between Grenfell and the Miami Champlain Towers South collapse highlighting the...

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Value Engineering: Scenes From the Grenfell Inquiry

Grenfell Inquiry Report Coverage

Residents Are Still Not Safe In Tower Blocks

Parliamentary Launch of Fire Safety Checklist

Government release list of over 10,000 residential tower blocks

Why Us? Why Now?

Checklist for tenants in buildings affected by safety problems

Maddocks House

Nowhere To Go

Tower Blocks UK visit Barton House, Bristol

40 years of tower blocks campaigning

Grenfell: In the words of survivors

The Ronan Point Scandal: Architecture, Crisis, and Possibility in British Social Democracy, 1968–93

Bishopsgate Institute launch Tower Blocks UK archive

International Stair Descend Day 19th May

Grenfell: Steve McQueen

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