Grenfell Tower: Fires

(asked on 2nd July 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department for Levelling Up, Housing & Communities:

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, how many people affected by the Grenfell Tower fire require rehousing; and how many of those people are in (a) emergency, (b) temporary and (c) permanent accommodation.


Answered by
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James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 5th July 2018

As of 2 July 2018, the latest data from the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea shows that 204 households from Grenfell Tower and Grenfell Walk require rehousing. Of this number, 43 households are living in hotels, 22 in serviced apartments and 3 with friends and family. 49 households are currently living in temporary accommodation, and 87 households have moved into a permanent home.

Council tenants from Barandon Walk, Testerton Walk, Hurstway Walk, Treadgold House and Bramley House who do not feel able to remain in their homes are eligible to be permanently rehoused under the Wider Grenfell Rehousing Policy. As of 2 July 2018, 12 of these households are living in hotels, 3 are living in serviced apartments and 74 households are currently living in temporary accommodation; some of these households are waiting to be permanently rehoused, while others are considering whether they feel able to return to their homes on the Estate. 2 households have moved to new permanent accommodation.

In order to prevent individual households being made identifiable, I am unable to provide a breakdown of the location of these households based on which part of the Estate they originally lived in.

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