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High Rise Social Housing: Reducing Fire Risk

Proceeding contribution from Karen Buck (Labour) in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 14 September 2021. It occurred during Debate on High Rise Social Housing: Reducing Fire Risk.

My hon. Friend is quite right to focus on the implications of these costs and how they will affect the repairs and development programmes. Does he also recognise an additional issue that the Government have not addressed over a number of years? Local authority housing contains a high proportion of leaseholders within that stock. Even where a local authority wishes to carry out fire safety works, as was the case in mine, the fact that there is no clarity about the right to go into leasehold properties and to require leaseholders to have the works done means that it does not even get the fire safety works carried out, and many tenants are left at risk as a consequence.

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Reference

700 c279WH 

Session

2021-22

Chamber / Committee

Westminster Hall
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