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800 homes evacuated by Camden Council due to cladding issues
800 homes evacuated by Camden Council due to cladding issues
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The eu project has a hand in all this saving the planet from burning.
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If you don't own the property you can be told to leave because it is someone else's responsibility, if you own a property it is your responsibility and it is your decision.
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even if you own a property there are circumstances when you can be told to leave.
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Women had a knock on her door at 2am and told to get her kids and leave, when asked whwat if she doesn't she was told the police would be called and she would be forced out, what a shambles.
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this is what happens if it is someone else's responsibility and not yours.
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According to Sky some 83 people ( or possibly households ) stayed put last night. They intend to evict them today.
What as shambles. The blonde child who is leader of Camden Council is the daughter of the late Lord Gould one of the close associates of Blair and,particularly,Mandelson |
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Being pragmatic is not an option anymore. You have to be seen going over the top, to appease the noisy ones, and to protect your arse just in case.
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has anyone asked the obvious question is a leisure centre certified for fire, welfare.health and safety to house 1000.s of people at an hours notice for weeks on end
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wait till the spotlight falls on BTL landlords in the private rental market the streets will be full
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Highly doubtful, as someone said earlier, they would be safer at home.
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if those in the leisure centre could make an ordley space for about 2,30 ive got a badminton court booked,
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if those in the leisure centre could make an ordley space for about 2,30 ive got a badminton court booked,
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if those in the leisure centre could make an ordley space for about 2,30 ive got a badminton court booked,
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Perhaps it would have been better to evacuate those on the higher floors, all the lower floor tenants in Grenfell got out. This does seem a bit of an over-reaction and panic situation, obviously serious measures have to be taken now for safety. But to relocate people and give them a short notice of just a few hours, maybe could have been handled differently.
Also lot of people concerned about what to do with their pets when they have to suddenly get out. Battersea Dogs Home have offered to take in all animals from owners who escaped from Grenfell and temporarily look after them for free. Lot of pets are believed to have died in the blaze as people left them behind while they fled. |
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Always plenty of Chit Chat 'experts' to say it was wrong. It wasn't just the cladding, there were faults with the lagging on the gas pipes, fire doors amongst other things. You cannot play games with peoples lives. However inconvenient it may be for the residents they are alive and safe.
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Lots of older houses will need rewiring all over the country, but until an electrician is working in the house and tells the owner this, or until something goes wrong, they will be blissfully unaware. Throwing the baby out with the bath water in this instance, mainly for appearance.
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these buildings are supposed to get regular checks for fire,safety,build regulations etc,etc and up until a week ago the powers that be were quite happy to play fast and lose with peoples lives,just remember this is the sort of red tape the tories,big business want a bonfire of
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Around 4000 people looking for tempory housing, wow.
Plenty of High end empty Properties Available ,they should be Re-Housed in these ,Im Sure the Neighbours will be delighted .. |
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thinking maybe these people will be told that flats are danger,we will re-house you out of London,if you don't like you can always be homeless, then knock said blocks down and build lovely sake posh blocks for the rich, nah surely not.
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They will be Rehoused where they want to be Re housed and thats how it Should be ,These blocks Should never have been Built Daunting Places to say the Least feel sorry for Kids living in them ,Some new Low rise Developements should be Built plenty of Space in the Richmond park area for a Start ,I'm sure the Local Luvvies will welcome all with Open arms ..
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ok till the cladding though
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ALL FOREIGN ENOCH POWELL WAS RIGHT
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http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/uknews/kensington-resident-tells-shocked-radio-host-if-grenfell-families-move-in-ill-leave/ar-BBD5o3J?li=AA9SkIr&ocid=spartandhp
We're all in this together  |
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Move ?? good Luck with getting ur 2 million back
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Seems to me that the relationship between building contractors and building control is endemically corrupt.
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Anybody would move if the Ethiopian moved into the same block madness not to.
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council had no choice but to act . Condemned by the Fire service - i would rather someone woke me up and told me to leave for safety reasons - then i can atleast choose to stay /leave . GG said residents were not forced to move
they also probably didn't want to run the risk of angry residents protesting about living in unsafe accom' after the fire checks . |
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They are being forced to move fwiw. The decision is a no brainer for the council (first and foremost they are protecting themselves from possible prosecution) Given the residents the option to stay, leaves the council facing more serious prosecution if someat happens to the building.
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Donna said her service charge bill was £15,500 Pmsfl HTF are the Grenfell people going to pay That Be uproar with people on benefits Cap
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My local council are removing the cladding with residents insitu, working 24hrs a day
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Thats sensible
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with this camden one i think the cladding seems to be the least of their problems - this is more about fire hazards elsewhere in the building .
will take a long time to put right |
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London house of pain?
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Portsmouth, tm.
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dune - fear is the mind killer.
this is fear politics. |
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thanks house,i think this is very much a London thing
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Corruption or incompetence in building control rife in the Capital it appears.
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It's an interesting conspiracy that the may want to knock these tower blocks down, they are dotted along a street in a fairly wealthy part of North London and maybe some influential local residents residing in million pound houses within eye shot see them as an eye sore and want them gone, probably lowers the value of their homes.
One of the residents on Sky News spent 12 hours sat in a plastic blue chair outside the Leisure centre, then was told she had a room in a hotel in Camden, but was turned away because it was double booked, what a farce. |
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this was always on the cards - these flats were all put up in the sixties. using concrete blocks. was it bison block panels? they were corroding and falling off the tower blocks. tons of concrete falling from a great height? they were meant as a short term solution. To get people out of slums. They should have been all retired after 40-50 years.
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It just goes to show how ungrateful immigrants can be.
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