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Peter Apps

London

Contributing Editor at Inside Housing

Writer at Freelance

Inside Housing + freelance elsewhere. Author of Orwell Prize winning Show Me The Bodies - How We Let Grenfell Happen. https://t.co/3MjBC9cplw

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  • Revealed: more than 200 Ronan Point-style blocks still have gas and may not have had strengthening work

    1 month ago | insidehousing.co.uk | Peter Apps

    News2.00 PM More than 200 tower blocks built in a method prone to collapse still have a gas supply and may not have had recommended strengthening works carried out, figures obtained by Inside Housing reveal.

  • Exclusive: Government officials warned about fire risk assessor two years before his removal from approved contractors list

    1 month ago | insidehousing.co.uk | Peter Apps

    News11.15 AM Government officials were warned of “troubling” reports about the quality of work being carried out by a prolific fire risk assessor two years before he was removed from a list of approved contractors, emails obtained by Inside Housing reveal.

  • Government response to Grenfell Tower Inquiry recommendations: steps forward, but not systemic change

    1 month ago | insidehousing.co.uk | Peter Apps

    Comment The government’s response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry will give us a single construction regulator, but leaves much unchanged – including the privatised system of testing and certification, writes Peter Apps, contributing editor at Inside Housing Sharelines The government’s response to the Grenfell Tower Inquiry will give us a single construction regulator, but leaves much unchanged, writes @PeteApps #UKhousing Speed-reading through my embargoed copy of the government’s response to...

  • Inside the economics of temporary accommodation

    2 months ago | insidehousing.co.uk | Stephen Delahunty |Peter Apps |Vicky Spratt

    Top 20 providers by revenue received for temporary accommodation (2019-24) Provider Amount received Notting Hill Genesis £84.8m Theori Property Management £69.1m Elliot Leigh Properties £51.3m Finefair £50.5m AJ Bush £36.3m RMG Ltd £35.8m Midos Estates Ltd £32.6m Denhan International £32.0m Dabora Conway £30.3m Travelodge £26.1m Letting Inter Tio (Lint) £23.3m Central Housing £21.9m Apex Housing £18.4m Stef & Phillips £18.2m DMS Properties Services Ltd £16.3m Rent Connect £14.5m Smart Space...

  • A long-term plan for fixing the building safety crisis

    Jan 14, 2025 | insidehousing.co.uk | Peter Apps

    At an early meeting of government officials and industry representatives as it started to become clear that many buildings would need fixing after the Grenfell Tower fire, one of the participants suggested the idea of some form of direct government control to ensure the prompt resolution of the issue.

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Peter Apps @PeteApps
10 Apr 25

The response to a disaster where people are forced out of their homes in the UK is almost always defined by traumatising incompetence. As climate breakdown accelerates, we urgently need to sort this and the Grenfell Inquiry report has important lessons: https://t.co/J95QomXgx1

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Peter Apps @PeteApps
7 Apr 25

I am not a number, I am a real story from Gaza. Remember it https://t.co/6U4RnFESI4 via @AJEnglish

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Peter Apps @PeteApps
4 Apr 25

RT @AydinDikerdem: Spot on from @PeteApps - a healthy challenge to progressives when it comes to urban development policies and projects. h…