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A short history of the building safety crisis

A short history of the building safety crisis

or, how your flat ended up covered in combustible plastic

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Peter Apps
Oct 27, 2023
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Every few months, a Twitter thread I wrote in summer 2020 gets retweeted again by people who still live in buildings with dangerous cladding or other serious fire safety defects.

The thread was a whistle-stop tour of why so many people were stuck in flats they couldn’t sell due to fire safety defects.

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