Chris Blythe OBE
@formerCEOCIOB
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formerly CEO of the CIOB from 2000-2019 #leaseholdscandal #Alderney resident #modernslavery views are my own, absolutely no connection with the CIOB now.
Bailiwick of Guernsey,
Joined April 2011
The housebuilding industry is so broken, with bad practice, misselling, corruption, greed, incompetence, no enforced standards of quality aided and abetted by the government policy of numbers built, no Minister is prepared to disrupt it to put it right. Sad but true.
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Leading Grenfell Inquiry KC calls out @Royal_Greenwich council for council position denying evidence of unlawful construction at 8 towers blocks in Woolwich.
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Dear @Royal_Greenwich Council, *Denial of existence of all our evidence of unlawful construction at the time of build as council position * The residents committee of the 1000 residents of Royal Artillery Quays in your borough (8 tall blocks of flats) have demonstrated the
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Anyone buying a home MUST do their due diligence and see what the risk is of becoming a mortgage prisoner whether, it be flooding, leasehold or shared ownership Flooding may make half a million households ‘mortgage prisoners’ by 2050 https://t.co/6RbGefwsQy
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The worst home scheme of all Shared ownership ‘trapping a generation’ in homes they can’t sell
telegraph.co.uk
Rising rents and high costs leave buyers unable to increase their share or sell up, new audit finds
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@InsideHousing exposes the dangerous PAS9980 fire safety remediation guidance that allows dangerous material banned on new buildings to remain on existing including EPS plus the dire insurance repercussions : "Several – including some of the affordable housing blocks – have
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Poor building quality is not restricted to leasehold flats. Mould-hit Glasgow super-hospital may need new cancer ward https://t.co/anzOmHU4ZA
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Today marks 105 months since the Grenfell fire — a tragedy that showed what happens when profit is put before people. Dirty Business on C4 is a stark reminder that systems allowing dangerous shortcuts and weak oversight cost lives. Remember Grenfell. Demand accountability.
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Not so great a contingency plan in reality. Replacement aircraft sent last night went tech this morning- knocks a hole in the availability statistics Contingency plan in place after flight disruption
bbc.co.uk
Aurigny said for operational reasons a shuttle service would be delivered between Guernsey and Alderney on Friday.
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As if the building safety crisis is not enough. Homes built in flood-prone areas ‘will never get insurance’ https://t.co/e9QJt5jLYT
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Our response to today's Grenfell Inquiry Recommendation update 💚
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Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case
bbc.co.uk
Migrant workers alleged they were subjected to abusive treatment in a Malaysian factory for Dyson.
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@mtpennycook To do that you need to implement the Earl of Lytton's https://t.co/6WC8j1LRXh consumer protection legislation for buildings
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@moving_charlie You should pick your conveyancer yourself - even if you think the referral fee is reasonable who is the conveyancer going to be afraid of upsetting? The one who pays their bill or the hand that feeds them?
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Intersting case. Even luxury apartments can have poor building standards. https://t.co/GdhBLe5wlL
lexology.com
In One Hyde Park Ltd v Laing O’Rourke Construction South Ltd, the Technology and Construction Court (TCC), the court delivered a judgment addressing…
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Unfortunately not.
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@SteveReedMP You've currently failed in your job to end the #BuildingSafetyCrisis, by cosying up to the construction industry that built dangerous homes & forcing their innocent victims to pay mentally & financially, for their wrongdoings. Stand up for the victims or we will vote you out.
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