Thread by @Andrewwood17

Stephen McPartland MP came to visit the Isle of Dogs today & later talked to 3 residents affected by fire safety/cladding issues, he has done more work on cladding then almost any other MP despite only have 4 affected blocks in his constituency = TH has at least 282!
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https://twitter.com/nick213/status/1384858052231417859

Actually we (the Council) do not know how many blocks have fire safety issues according to a Q I asked last week
282 blocks in TH applied for extra £ from government (Council only confirm 51 with ACM) but this won’t include most housing association blocks, separate fund
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Stephen provided some good advice to the campaigners & asked for practical steps that he can push, for example how waking watch works or removing VAT on remediation costs
Clear that very few MPs really understand the issues given the complexity
I talked about some of other
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blocks affected + the complexity of developments with mixed tenures where the lower floors are housing association managed and the upper floors private managed by management companies
But this subject needs a lot more attention & focus as the consequences are going to get
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worse in coming years
Stephen gave a masterclass on politics in the hour he spent with residents
Thanks to @nick213 & @going4golds for arranging
Peter & I will have a think about how we can help residents & Stephen in the work he is doing
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Also Stephen & his aide were shocked by the scale & density of development here (1st pic from Millharbour)
He is the MP for Stevenage in Hertfordshire
I did say we might be setting a trend for other places in the UK!
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