UK housing minister says government bears some of the blame for Grenfell fire |
LONDON, 29 January (Reuters) – In the 2017 Grenfell fire that killed 72 people Britain government is partly to blame because building regulations were inadequate and could be dangerously exploited by developers, Housing Secretary Michael Gove said on Sunday. .
June 2017 23-storey west London social which started as a result of an electrical fault in the Grenfell Tower refrigerator, a residential building fire destroyed as a result, the deadliest in a residential building since World War II in Great Britain fire has been
A retro-fitted flammable cladding system on the tower’s exterior walls was a key factor in the fire’s unstoppable spread, and the disaster sparked a wave of soul-searching over whether it neglected the ethnically mixed, mostly low-income community. participates in the fate of the tower.
Gove told the Sunday Times that the building guidelines were “so wrong and vague that they allowed unscrupulous people to exploit a broken system in a way that led to tragedy”.
“I think if you look at what happened at Grenfell, there were a lot of factors. But yes, the government should collectively take some responsibility,” he told Sky News separately.
“There is a difference between presiding over a careless system and actively exploiting it. However, it is undeniable that the building regulation system is incorrect.”
After the fire, a public inquiry revealed numerous failings in the planning and management of the Grenfell renovation, and hundreds of buildings were found to have similar cladding.
Prime Minister Gove, who sits in Rishi Sunak’s senior cabinet, said people would “effectively block” hundreds of thousands of flats in buildings identified as having similar defects to Grenfell. imprisonment done”, he said that the residents are not safe, and at the same time they cannot sell their apartments. .
“I’ve apologized to people and I always will,” he said, adding that some progress had been made.
By Alistair Smout report; Edited by Toby Chopra
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2023-01-29 17:00:42
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