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• Britain can put up acres of shoddy new-builds – or homes fit for the future. We do have a choice | Astrid Smitham

  16-11-2023 11:00
  Labour’s plan for 1.5m new homes is a chance to raise the bar for all, but it must be focused on real social and climate needsAstrid Smitham is an architect and lecturerWe are in the midst of a desperate housing emergency, so Keir Starmer is right to make delivering 1.5m homes central to Labour’s goals. But to truly solve the crisis, building more homes like the ones we are typically putting up now will not do. As long as so many of the basics of new housing are failing, focusing on
  
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• Experts warned government of tower block collapse risk last year, leak reveals

  16-11-2023 06:00
  Whitehall officials were told that at-risk buildings have not been remediated, with the market ‘prioritising profit over safety’Government safety experts last year warned that many tower blocks built from concrete panels that may pose a collapse risk have not been fixed, leaked documents reveal.Minutes of the government’s structural stability working group revealed that experts warned Whitehall officials in 2022 that “buildings which were supposed to have undergone remedi
  
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