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The Grenfell Tower Inquiry expects to hold its next hearings in March, two months later than previously planned, as the team revealed it has received over 267,000 documents.
The next procedural hearing will take place on 21 and 22 March, following on from the first two days of hearings in December.
In an update the inquiry revealed it has received over 267,000 documents and anticipates this could rise to 300,000.
The inquiry team has written to the core participants proposing that evidential hearings – where the inquiry will start hearing from witnesses – could begin in May and no later than 4 June.
The procedural hearings were originally scheduled for 30 and 31 January.
The inquiry continues to receive applications for core participant status and 521 applications have been granted to date. Of these, 495 are survivors of the fire, bereaved and residents of the local area and the remaining 26 are organisations such as businesses and local or national government bodies.
Sir Martin Moore-Bick, the inquiry chair, plans to publish the names of all core participants “as soon as possible” and has asked any core participants who wish to remain anonymous to contact him setting out their reasons.
The inquiry has asked five experts to produce reports looking at:
These are due to be shared with core participants by the end of March.
Inside Housing is calling for immediate action to implement the learning from the Lakanal House fire, and a commitment to act – without delay – on learning from the Grenfell Tower tragedy as it becomes available.
We will submit evidence from our research to the Grenfell public inquiry.
The inquiry should look at why opportunities to implement learning that could have prevented the fire were missed, in order to ensure similar opportunities are acted on in the future.