In another huge misstep, Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council have shown an astonishing insensitivity to survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster.
The council has already caused anger among local people by stating that any survivor who accepts an offer of free temporary accommodation from a kind-hearted local builder will be removed from the council’s rehoming list. Now it transpires that the council itself has offered some Grenfell residents temporary accommodation – in a building that they describe as a ‘carbon copy’ of Grenfell Tower.
Some survivors have been offered rooms at a local Premier Inn, which in itself sounds unobjectionable. But anyone with a little local knowledge knows that the high-rise hotel bears a strong resemblance to the building that burned down last week with huge loss of life.
Including exterior cladding:
It’s unknown whether anyone has accepted the offer, but several families and individuals have already refused it, saying that they can’t bear the thought of being shut up in a building so similar to the one that they barely escaped and which cost the lives of so many friends and relatives.
Given that many local people – even those who were simply near the blaze and not in it – are suffering flashbacks, insomnia and what must be post-traumatic stress, it seems staggeringly insensitive to propose moving people back into an environment like the one at the root of their trauma.
Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council have so far been unreachable for comment.
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Kensington and Chelsea Borough Council are so inept and crassly insenitive it beggars belief. Bet it masks a huge amount of corruption. Given that it took the Hillsborough families a quarter of a century to get any form of justice, it’s tempting to speculate just how long this one will take.
having once worked in the building industry I remember how K&C were always thought of as being ‘notorious’ for corruption;
Recently a Councillor was asked why a 24 storey building should be allowed – ” well (he said) the developers have to make money” yes this is hearsay …
This sounds like a particularly vile form of cynicism on the part of KCBC. So, people are ‘offered’ accommodation. Those people, unsurprisingly, turn down this accommodation. What next? Will the council start making out these people have made themselves intentionally homeless?
The way they’re carrying on, I wouldn’t rule it out. In fact, I’d say it’s probably gonna happen…
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Is this risky?
I see boris’ sister reckons poor tess is a ‘victim’….One altogether obnoxious tribe, that.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6R7sOPMNgHE
I mean, what next? boris to do a ‘berlusconi’ , and tell those left homeless to pretend they’re on holiday?? :/
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