Recommendation rejected by Pickles as ‘disproportionate’ in 2013 repeated in Grenfell Tower Inquiry

A recommendation branded “unnecessary and disproportionate” by Eric Pickles after the Lakanal House fire has been repeated today by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry judge.

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