Grenfell Tower: Fires

(asked on 29th March 2019) - View Source

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

To ask the Secretary of State for Housing, Communities and Local Government, with reference to the Written Statement of 29 November 2018, HCWS1126, Grenfell Update, what progress has been made on work to engage the community on the design and implementation of the soil testing process by the multi-agency soil surveying group.


Answered by
James Brokenshire Portrait
James Brokenshire
This question was answered on 3rd April 2019

The Government has committed to engage the local community with the contaminated land investigation process from start to finish. We want to understand their concerns and local intelligence so that they are able to influence the design and implementation of the investigation.

The Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government has been holding weekly drop in sessions since December 2018, and has engaged over 70 community groups and individuals within the community at meetings and events. We have recently launched a site on the Nextdoor app to keep the community up to date with progress.

Representatives from eleven community groups were invited to meet the independent specialists on 27 February before their appointment was confirmed.  Community consultation workshops will take place in late April to help inform the scope and priorities for Stage 1 of the investigation.

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