Housing Sector Podcast – Building Safety, Denial and the Fight for Accountability

Stephen Day returns to the Housing Sector Podcast with an extraordinary update from Royal Artillery Quays in Woolwich. Residents say they have spent years raising concerns about serious fire-safety and construction defects, including missing fire doors and failures in internal fire compartmentation. Yet Stephen says the evidence they have repeatedly presented has been denied, dismissed or ignored. In this episode we discuss the Royal Borough of Greenwich, the Building Safety Regulator, London Fire Brigade, the Ombudsman and the wider system residents are expected to rely upon when something goes wrong. Stephen also explains why residents raised more than £4,000 themselves to commission independent fire-engineering advice, why he believes public statements made about their evidence must now be withdrawn, and why the proposed Hillsborough Law could become highly significant. But the wider question is bigger than Royal Artillery Quays. How many residents are living in potentially unsafe buildings who simply do not have the time, money, knowledge or confidence to spend years fighting the organisations that are supposed to protect them? And why does the system so often appear to focus on the person raising the alarm rather than the alarm itself? Right to reply will be offered to those criticised or named during this discussion. #HousingSector #BuildingSafety #RoyalArtilleryQuays #Greenwich #RoyalBoroughOfGreenwich #FireSafety #BuildingSafetyCrisis #Leasehold #Grenfell #HillsboroughLaw #SocialHousing #ResidentVoice #Accountability #HousingCrisis