This is a tower of slum housing that the local council owned. They decided to clad it in insulated panels.
The cost of that work, even if it eliminated heating bills, which it wouldn't, would have taken over 100 years to payback the investment.
Green lunacy. They never should have bothered with it.
They then changed the intended panels for cheaper ones, and it caught fire, because it was basically a chimney within a chimney, lined with fuel, it was engulfed in flames.
Then there was a long inquiry that cost enough to build 6 or more towers like it (but modern), total waste of money. The cause was known.
Their solution to prevent this happening? to burden every single future building project over certain height with heavy layers of bureaucracy. These extra layers are EXACTLY the same as already existing layers that were already in place, but which will also remain in place.
Every building will now get even more expensive to build thanks to their groupthink "solution" which is just doubling up an old failed system (CDM+BSA)
THEY ARE IDIOTS, and ignored the real cause: Climate lunacy which was the original impetus for the project that led to this. They had NO BUSINESS cladding the monstrosity in the first place, it was a waste of money and should have been stopped before it begun, but groupthink is absolutely RIFE in councils and government and industry because of the CLIMATE CHANGE PSYOP.
LONDON (AP) – Some of those who lost loved ones in the fire that ripped through London´s Grenfell Tower in 2017 have blasted government plans to demolish the shell of the apartment block, which they want to preserve as a monument to the 72 people who died in the blaze.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner met with relatives and survivors on Wednesday to discuss the government´s decision ahead of a formal announcement on Friday. Grenfell United, which represents some of the bereaved, claimed their voices had been ignored.
“Angela Rayner could not give a reason for her decision to demolish the tower,´´ the group said. “She refused to confirm how many bereaved and survivors had been spoken to in the recent, short four-week consultation.´´
The remains of the 24-story apartment building loom over the North Kensington neighborhood in west London, providing a constant reminder of the lives that were lost when a fast-moving fire gutted the tower in the early morning hours of June 14, 2017. While some survivors see the hulk as a fitting memorial, others say redeveloping the site would help the community heal.
Government officials have declined to discuss their decision before the public announcement. The government previously said the Grenfell site would remain unchanged at least until the eighth anniversary of the disaster in June.
A public inquiry into the disaster concluded that decades of failures by government, regulators and industry turned the apartment block into a “death trap.”
The investigation found no “single cause” of the tragedy but said a combination of dishonest companies, weak regulators and complacent government authorities led the building to be covered in combustible cladding that turned a small refrigerator fire into the deadliest blaze on British soil since World War II.
So, a very tall building caught in a complete inferno is still standing? Who knew?
This is a tower of slum housing that the local council owned. They decided to clad it in insulated panels. The cost of that work, even if it eliminated heating bills, which it wouldn't, would have taken over 100 years to payback the investment. Green lunacy. They never should have bothered with it.
They then changed the intended panels for cheaper ones, and it caught fire, because it was basically a chimney within a chimney, lined with fuel, it was engulfed in flames.
Then there was a long inquiry that cost enough to build 6 or more towers like it (but modern), total waste of money. The cause was known.
Their solution to prevent this happening? to burden every single future building project over certain height with heavy layers of bureaucracy. These extra layers are EXACTLY the same as already existing layers that were already in place, but which will also remain in place.
Every building will now get even more expensive to build thanks to their groupthink "solution" which is just doubling up an old failed system (CDM+BSA)
THEY ARE IDIOTS, and ignored the real cause: Climate lunacy which was the original impetus for the project that led to this. They had NO BUSINESS cladding the monstrosity in the first place, it was a waste of money and should have been stopped before it begun, but groupthink is absolutely RIFE in councils and government and industry because of the CLIMATE CHANGE PSYOP.
That is all.
From the article,
LONDON (AP) – Some of those who lost loved ones in the fire that ripped through London´s Grenfell Tower in 2017 have blasted government plans to demolish the shell of the apartment block, which they want to preserve as a monument to the 72 people who died in the blaze.
Deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner met with relatives and survivors on Wednesday to discuss the government´s decision ahead of a formal announcement on Friday. Grenfell United, which represents some of the bereaved, claimed their voices had been ignored.
“Angela Rayner could not give a reason for her decision to demolish the tower,´´ the group said. “She refused to confirm how many bereaved and survivors had been spoken to in the recent, short four-week consultation.´´
The remains of the 24-story apartment building loom over the North Kensington neighborhood in west London, providing a constant reminder of the lives that were lost when a fast-moving fire gutted the tower in the early morning hours of June 14, 2017. While some survivors see the hulk as a fitting memorial, others say redeveloping the site would help the community heal.
Government officials have declined to discuss their decision before the public announcement. The government previously said the Grenfell site would remain unchanged at least until the eighth anniversary of the disaster in June.
A public inquiry into the disaster concluded that decades of failures by government, regulators and industry turned the apartment block into a “death trap.”
The investigation found no “single cause” of the tragedy but said a combination of dishonest companies, weak regulators and complacent government authorities led the building to be covered in combustible cladding that turned a small refrigerator fire into the deadliest blaze on British soil since World War II.
That is pretty ridiculous. Like preserving the parts of London destroyed in Germany's blitz. Wasn't that building full of migrants?