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Morning Briefing: reaction to expected lack of cladding ban in Hackitt Review
The BBC and The Guardian follow up Inside Housing’s scoop that this morning’s Hackitt Review will not ban combustible materials.
In the news
Ahead of the release of the Hackitt Review of building regulations at 9.30am, The Guardian has followed up Inside Housing’s scoop from Friday that Dame Judith Hackitt’s recommendations will not include a ban on combustible cladding. The BBC has also followed up on the scoop here.
The Guardian quotes Sandra Ruiz, whose niece died at Grenfell, saying she fears that not explicitly banning combustible cladding was a way to minimise disruption to the building industry and ran the risk of further failures.
“If her thought process is to make these materials difficult to be used then why not just ban them?” she said. “Seventy two people died. Take them away completely and don’t run the risk again.”
We will have all the latest on the Hackitt Review as soon as it publishes this morning, and in the meantime you can catch up on what was being briefed ahead of the final report here.
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Expect a row once it is released, with Labour and survivors groups among many demanding it goes further and recommend a ban on combustible products.
Elsewhere, the BBC has a piece about survivors of the fire who will still be in emergency housing 12 months on from the blaze.
The government has published statistics on mortgage repossessions which show the figure is broadly static compared to two years ago, but have fallen compared to the same quarter last year.
Third Force News, which reports on the charitable sector, has carried out research showing one fifth of rejected Universal Credit applications are due to “non-compliance with the process”, or in other words, the complexity of the system.
North-east based housing association Thirteen Group has promised to improve after criticism from elected councillors about communications, local media reports.
A spokesperson said: “Since the creation of Thirteen in 2014, our performance has improved although in some areas it is not as good as we would like and we are working hard to improve this.”
Meanwhile, The Liverpool Echo is critical of housing association One Vision’s failure to provide more information on tower block safety, as it claims key questions it has put to the association about its tower blocks have not been answered.
On social media
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What’s on
- The Hackitt Review – the government-commissioned review into building regulations – is expected to publish its final report after 9.30am
- The Housing and Local Government Committee of MPs will discuss the Hackitt Review findings from 3.30pm
