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peteapps.bsky.social
Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://peteapps.substack.com
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At One Hyde Park, where individual apartments can sell for £175m. The construction sector is very sick www.ft.com/content/5cb6...

submitted 10 hours ago • 1 comment

Interesting aside in the Grenfell inquiry response from government. I wonder if this is partially about ministers asking the question "what on earth do we do about all the non-compliant council landlords out there?" Worth watching the outcome... www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/governa...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Seven companies to be investigated for debarment from public contracts are Arconic, Saint-Gobain, Exova (UK), Harley Facades, Kingspan, Rydon Maintenance, and Studio E Architects questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-stat...

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

Snap response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendations response. A flurry of consultations and reviews which somehow feel both lightweight and overwhelming. Some good in there. But lots missing. We have travelled since Grenfell - but not nearly far enough:

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Siderise - the cavity barrier manufacturer - is challenging its inclusion in a group of manufacturers and contractors banned from projects RBKC. It says its products didn't cause or contribute to the fire. That's true. But it also isn't the full story...

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Concerning research here from Savills suggesting that up to 40% of private rental properties in central London are now short term lets. thenegotiator.co.uk/news/rental-...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Councils spend £1.6bn a year on 'temporary accommodation' for homeless families - which includes some of the worst housing conditions in the country. But who is getting the money? A joint investigation between me, Vicky Spratt and @sdelahunty.bsky.social tried to provide an answer...

submitted 7 days ago • 2 comments

Southwark Council - London's largest council landlord - has 50% of its homes without smoke alarms and 2,000 fire remedial issues outstanding. Utterly damning anywhere, but especially in the borough which lost six residents to the Lakanal House fire in 2009

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

It is well worth reading @peteapps.bsky.social on how the current Labour government's plans for New Towns differ from - and fall far short - of those delivered by the 1945-51 Labour Government: open.substack.com/pub/peteapps...

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Really good to talk about Grenfell and the ongoing health impacts with Anna Stec on the podcast Red Medicine: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/g...

submitted 19 days ago • 0 comments

Latest Substack digest of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry report (yes, I'm still going with that - it's a very long report), takes in the alphabet soup of regulatory capture: the BBA, LABC and NHBC peteapps.substack.com/p/a-desire-t...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

Great piece this from Inside Housing's James Riding on a TikTok 'entrepeneur' who has been promising investors lucrative returns from 'social housing' investment: www.insidehousing.co.uk/insight/the-...

submitted 24 days ago • 1 comment

New on Substack, part two of my study of the Hulme Crescents scheme in Manchester described in 1978 by the city's chair of housing as an ‘absolute disaster – it shouldn’t have been planned, it shouldn’t have been built’. open.substack.com/pub/municipa...

submitted 32 days ago • 1 comment

As I get started on BSKY (is that what we're supposed to call it?), here's a typically upbeat article about the policy decisions which led to so many kids are dying in temporary accommodation - and what we could do about it open.substack.com/pub/peteapps...

submitted 31 days ago • 8 comments

Hi everyone on the light side of the force! I am going to be posting a bit more here now, as a typically late adopter You'll also find me on Insta (www.instagram.com/peteapps/), and I will keep my Twitter/X/Hellsite account live too

submitted 31 days ago • 2 comments