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A SERIES of interim recommendations to ensure the safety of Britain’s high-rise tenants were laid out before the public inquiry into the Grenfell Tower fire as it resumed yesterday.
Michael Mansfield QC, on behalf of a group of 11 law firms representing survivors and those left bereaved by the disaster on June 14 2017, said the suggestions were “blindingly obvious” and could be rapidly implemented.
The key recommendations include an immediate moratorium on the use of external cladding systems containing any combustable material, the use of active and passive fire suppression systems and for each floor or flat to have fire extinguishers and fire blankets.
YVETTE WILLIAMS and JOE DELANEY dissect the institutional dawdling that rubbed salt into the Grenfell open wounds prolonging the agony of survivors
Our housing crisis isn’t an accident – it’s class war, trapping millions in poverty while landlords and billionaires profit. To solve it, we need comprehensive transformation, not mere tokenistic reform, writes BECK ROBERTSON
