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Grenfell Tower’s landlords appeared to have a “reactive approach to maintenance” dating back to a report in 2013, a public inquiry has heard.
Andrew Kinnier QC, for the Grenfell Tower Inquiry, said that a document in 2013 viewed the Kensington and Chelsea Tenant Management Organisation (TMO), as having a “reactive approach to maintenance” built more on compliance rather than breakdown.
The TMO was the organisation appointed by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) to run its entire council housing stock.
The document said there were issues which needed attention regarding planned maintenance.
It stated that “there are only a handful of arrangements in the policy” and “many are missing” such as pressure vessels, working at height and contractor management.
TMO was the organisation appointed by the borough to run its council housing
Grenfell Tower inquiry told that document viewed TMO has having a reactive approach to maintenance
Added that the approach was built more on compliance rather than breakdown
It said there were issues needing attention regarding planned maintenance
Also added that many of the fire arrangements have been bunched together
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Ray is a 55-year-old man in Vancouver, Canada. He used to live in an emergency homeless shelter. But over the past couple years, he’s been able to pay for a place to live and courses to prepare him for his dream job in part because he participated in a study called the New Leaf Project.
The study, conducted by the charity Foundations for Social Change in partnership with the University of British Columbia, was fairly
simple. It identified 50 people in the Vancouver area who had become homeless in the past two years. In spring 2018, it gave them each one lump sum of $7,500 (in Canadian dollars). And it told them to do whatever they wanted with the cash.
A NEW form of entertainment – and, in the view of our sister paper, the Evening Times, “practically a new way of life for many Glasgow people” – arrived in the summer of 1963. The city was about to experience the joys of ten-pin bowling, with the opening of the £400,000, 32-lane Brunswick Hampden Bowl, at Mount Florida. “Scots people are too keen just to go and watch sport,” said the centre’s manager, Mitch Currie. “Ten-pin bowling is the answer to this, because it is a sport that everyone can play.” Brunswick’s advisory star bowler, Bob Guy, a former porter at London’s Smithfield market, was impressed by the large number of Glaswegians who had been receiving training over the last few days.