What's happening to Neutron Tower residents shows that the management of building safety is failing.
@tomcopley, the way residents have been treated, both before & after the fire, is a scandal. Londoners deserve answers, accountability and to know who is truly on their side. 👇
Residents of an east London development had to be evacuated after a blaze on the 12th floor and are being charged while their homes are made safe https://t.co/haNhLqvm9i
Well the "consequences" are that the Govt announced its Your First Home scheme which is exactly the kind of demand-side intervention that these same housebuilders wanted 🤷
@anna4fes Exactly. Developers miss the targets they agreed with Government, yet face no meaningful consequences.
Nothing has changed. It's business as usual and an unrelenting focus on the needs of industry.
And Labour insists the building safety crisis has not been deprioritised...
No listed developer met the target to start or complete work on 80% of buildings by July 2026.
@mhclg says, “failure to meet their contractual obligations risks enforcement action, including being prohibited from carrying out major development.”
But consequences there are none.
Nobody looking at the volume of these figures among the big six builders can think these are random failures, this is systematic failure of building control and enforcement of building safety standards over probably 20-30 years.
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I understand that Laura Johnson, the former RBKC housing director whose actions were criticised in the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report, is no longer employed by the Barnet Group which recently gave her a permanent role as group director
The problem is that modern buildings aren’t inherently safe. Thousands of buildings, most built in the last 20 years, are still awaiting remediation of life-critical fire safety defects. Only weeks ago, a man died in a fire at Neutron Tower in East London.
@Sam_Dumitriu@thetimes Just days ago, another fatal fire occurred in an unremediated Barratt-built block in London.
The big housebuilders you're so concerned about still have 1000s of defective buildings to remediate. Their failure to act has upended the lives of hundreds of thousands of leaseholders.
What's happening to Neutron Tower residents shows that the management of building safety is failing.
@tomcopley, the way residents have been treated, both before & after the fire, is a scandal. Londoners deserve answers, accountability and to know who is truly on their side. 👇
Arconic - which made the cladding - settled a similar lawsuit with its investors in the US in 2023 for $74m (more than double what it paid bereaved and survivors)
Kingspan faces €100m investor lawsuit in UK over alleged Grenfell Tower misconduct.
Sharedholders are suing the firm, arguing its behaviour damaged the value of their investments.
Link below (TW for image of the tower on fire)
"The latest figures show that the number of buildings being monitored for remediation continues to grow, while thousands of buildings remain somewhere in the remediation pipeline."
The evidence shows that building safety still isn't a @UKLabour priority. 👇
Residents of an east London development had to be evacuated after a blaze on the 12th floor and are being charged while their homes are made safe https://t.co/haNhLqvm9i
Barratt Redrow, Neutron Tower's developer, reports 79% of assessed buildings need remediation.
Work has started or completed on 28% of those. Against a target of 80% by end July 2026.
MHCLG officials must stop making excuses for developers and start holding them to account.
A fatal fire at Neutron Tower. Residents forced from their homes.
Tasha, a shared owner, is still paying £1,540 a month in rent and service charges, plus her mortgage, for a flat she cannot live in.
Years of remediation delays. Now displacement and more financial pain.