| Latimer Road 02:31 - Jun 14 with 103562 views | stowmarketrange |
A big fire in a tower block in Latimer Road just been reported on 5live.Eyewitness says there are people trapped on the upper floors.
I hope everyone gets out safely. |  | | |  |
| Latimer Road on 12:29 - Jun 14 with 3782 views | JamesB1979 |
I don't know what the rules and regulations are but surely having a working and loud fire alarm system must be a legal requirement!? |  | | |
| Latimer Road on 12:29 - Jun 14 with 3781 views | traininvain |
Looks like the truth is emerging very quickly thanks to social media. Years ago this would've been covered up and blamed on the residents.
Have to wonder how different the reporting of Hillsborough would have been with the internet, social media etc. |  | | |
| Latimer Road on 12:30 - Jun 14 with 3763 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
| Latimer Road on 12:29 - Jun 14 by traininvain |
Looks like the truth is emerging very quickly thanks to social media. Years ago this would've been covered up and blamed on the residents.
Have to wonder how different the reporting of Hillsborough would have been with the internet, social media etc. |
According to the industry publication Construction Enquirer, the company that carried out the cladding work on Grenfell Tower went into administration shortly after completing the work.
Harley Curtain Wall carried out the £3m project in 2015.
That's them blamed but off the hook [Post edited 14 Jun 2017 12:32]
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| Latimer Road on 12:34 - Jun 14 with 3740 views | ozexile |
I don't think so. Insolvency of a company won't stop the directors of that company being held accountable I think. | | | |
| Latimer Road on 12:36 - Jun 14 with 3719 views | zicoshoops |
| Latimer Road on 10:13 - Jun 14 by Northernr |
That is just an unimaginable nightmare isn't it, middle of the night, at that speed. Fcking hell. Poor bstrds.
Only one escape, fire alarms didn't go off, dry risers didn't work, residents previously told that if it does catch fire just stay in your flat with the door closed, several blogs online written months ago saying it was an absolute death trap and fire hazards had been repeatedly reported and ignored... this is going to be another of London's excellent private sector landlords/management companies at work isn't it?
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When I lived there 40 odd years ago there were already families trying to transfer out of there.
When the wind blew from the West, the sound through the sides and underneath the front door of the Flat, (even with the windows closed) was like the noise of a Train coming out of a tunnel.
If that hadn't been addressed over the years it's not surprising the flames spread so fast.
I'm not sure of the management of the building now, but Kensington and Chelsea Council built it, and they were running it when I was there. | | | |
| Latimer Road on 12:45 - Jun 14 with 3636 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
Imagine if this had been a terrorist attack and the outrage
But we will get no one taking responsibility | |
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| Latimer Road on 13:00 - Jun 14 with 3530 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
Some good news for the tory lead council that wanted to knock the area down and sell off to developers for private housing. I'm sure they will be taking bids now | |
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| Latimer Road on 13:24 - Jun 14 with 3419 views | BromleyHoop |
| Latimer Road on 13:00 - Jun 14 by 2Thomas2Bowles |
Some good news for the tory lead council that wanted to knock the area down and sell off to developers for private housing. I'm sure they will be taking bids now |
Give it a rest will you FFS. |  |
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| Latimer Road on 13:31 - Jun 14 with 3363 views | Northernr |
| Latimer Road on 13:00 - Jun 14 by 2Thomas2Bowles |
Some good news for the tory lead council that wanted to knock the area down and sell off to developers for private housing. I'm sure they will be taking bids now |
LFW - where absolutely everything that happens everywhere quickly gets boiled down to left wing v right wing. |  | | |
| Latimer Road on 13:34 - Jun 14 with 3337 views | PunteR |
| Latimer Road on 13:00 - Jun 14 by 2Thomas2Bowles |
Some good news for the tory lead council that wanted to knock the area down and sell off to developers for private housing. I'm sure they will be taking bids now |
Have i read this right..? Please tell me your not using this as an excuse for some Tory bashing..? |  |
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| Latimer Road on 13:36 - Jun 14 with 3315 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
| Latimer Road on 13:34 - Jun 14 by PunteR |
Have i read this right..? Please tell me your not using this as an excuse for some Tory bashing..? |
Was it Labour then ? the new Labour mp maybe ? | |
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| Latimer Road on 13:40 - Jun 14 with 3287 views | Northernr |
| Latimer Road on 13:36 - Jun 14 by 2Thomas2Bowles |
Was it Labour then ? the new Labour mp maybe ? |
For the third time this month I'm asking you to wind your neck in. | | | |
| Latimer Road on 13:40 - Jun 14 with 3267 views | Boston |
| Latimer Road on 13:36 - Jun 14 by 2Thomas2Bowles |
Was it Labour then ? the new Labour mp maybe ? |
Calm down mate, you're coming over like you've short circuited. | |
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| Latimer Road on 13:41 - Jun 14 with 3260 views | johncharles |
Kensington and Chelsea Council would have had to make a final inspection before the works were signed off. The buck has to stop somewhere. |  |
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| Latimer Road on 13:47 - Jun 14 with 3212 views | Boston |
| Latimer Road on 13:41 - Jun 14 by johncharles |
Kensington and Chelsea Council would have had to make a final inspection before the works were signed off. The buck has to stop somewhere. |
...now you have stepped into my world. There will be far more professionally qualified people than members of a Borough Council who bear responsibility for approving the integrity of structure and materials used in this type of construction. | |
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| Latimer Road on 13:47 - Jun 14 with 3216 views | DesertBoot |
A resident on BBC News said new kitchens were fitted in several flats recently but they were done on the cheap and far too quickly. |  |
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| Latimer Road on 13:49 - Jun 14 with 3209 views | Northernr |
| Latimer Road on 13:41 - Jun 14 by johncharles |
Kensington and Chelsea Council would have had to make a final inspection before the works were signed off. The buck has to stop somewhere. |
Yes but try to spot the subtle difference between saying they're negligent, saying they've cut corners, saying they housed people in a death trap etc and saying they deliberately made this building a fire hazard in the hope it would burn down so they can redevelop the land.
I am going to start suspending accounts if this rabid left and right wing bolox continues to spill over into wild conspiracy theories and things that are not legally safe to have on here. | | | |
| Latimer Road on 13:54 - Jun 14 with 3166 views | Boston |
| Latimer Road on 13:47 - Jun 14 by DesertBoot |
A resident on BBC News said new kitchens were fitted in several flats recently but they were done on the cheap and far too quickly. |
If a quick cheap kitchen fitting were a problem, you would have wiped out half the IKEA adoring luvvies in the Home Counties. | |
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| Latimer Road on 13:57 - Jun 14 with 3145 views | Boston |
Does anyone Know the whereabouts of Andy O'Rourke, season ticket holder in HU? Fcking sure that's where he lives. | |
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| Latimer Road on 14:05 - Jun 14 with 3096 views | Hayesender |
Just read that they don't think anyone on the top three floors survived. Horrific 😢 |  |
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| Latimer Road on 14:10 - Jun 14 with 3062 views | dontknowitall |
| Latimer Road on 13:57 - Jun 14 by Boston |
Does anyone Know the whereabouts of Andy O'Rourke, season ticket holder in HU? Fcking sure that's where he lives. |
Apparently JJB has spoken to Andy (Insom) and he is ok. Lives opposite but not actually in Grenfell |  | | |
| Latimer Road on 14:10 - Jun 14 with 3058 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
| Latimer Road on 13:49 - Jun 14 by Northernr |
Yes but try to spot the subtle difference between saying they're negligent, saying they've cut corners, saying they housed people in a death trap etc and saying they deliberately made this building a fire hazard in the hope it would burn down so they can redevelop the land.
I am going to start suspending accounts if this rabid left and right wing bolox continues to spill over into wild conspiracy theories and things that are not legally safe to have on here. |
I never said that.
It is true that they did want to sell it off to be knocked down and private housing build there.
Do you imagine that they will not do that now and build social housing ?
Have a look at what a Labour council have done with the Haygate 5000 residence removed on the promise of new social housing but have only build 79 by the private developers
I bed flats start at £1.2 M
I would be just as critical of K&C if they were Labour but they are a much richer borough
From what I've read the council did not pay for the refurbishment but was paid for by the company doing work on a school
Who gave them that contract and who should take responsibility. [Post edited 14 Jun 2017 14:25]
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| Latimer Road on 14:35 - Jun 14 with 2938 views | TheChef |
| Latimer Road on 14:10 - Jun 14 by 2Thomas2Bowles |
I never said that.
It is true that they did want to sell it off to be knocked down and private housing build there.
Do you imagine that they will not do that now and build social housing ?
Have a look at what a Labour council have done with the Haygate 5000 residence removed on the promise of new social housing but have only build 79 by the private developers
I bed flats start at £1.2 M
I would be just as critical of K&C if they were Labour but they are a much richer borough
From what I've read the council did not pay for the refurbishment but was paid for by the company doing work on a school
Who gave them that contract and who should take responsibility. [Post edited 14 Jun 2017 14:25]
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Interesting re Heygate:
https://www.vice.com/en_uk/article/every-flat-in-a-new-south-london-development-
This tragic event does open a whole can of worms about the current state of the London property market and attitudes towards current council housing and related land.
Supposedly we're a first world country and people can still die this way? Shameful. |  |
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| Latimer Road on 14:40 - Jun 14 with 2903 views | 2Thomas2Bowles |
My figures may be a little off but right in every other aspect . | |
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