formerly CEO of the CIOB from 2000-2019 #leaseholdscandal #Alderney resident #modernslavery views are my own, absolutely no connection with the CIOB now.

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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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PAS9980 must never become law.
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The dangers of using PAS9980 for post Grenfell remediations was exposed by @GideonJAmos and @AlPinkerton in parliament and should not be included in the published Remediation Bill. This guidance due to become law : - Eliminates the need to check if defects breached building regulations at the time of construction. - Undermines the Fire Safety Order that needs buildings to be complaint with the Building Regulations to manage fire risk properly. - It condemns people to permanently high insurance and is rejected by the ABI. - Allows highly combustible material banned on new buildings to remain on existing buildings (RAQ example). - Allows completely opposing fire engineering conclusions to both be true. We must oppose this appalling remediation guidance from becoming law in the Remediation Bill as has now seen published. @geoffWilkinson @dominicahern @andyburnham @AngelaRayner @LibdemCharlie @KathPinnock
PAS9980 is in the Remediation Bill. Allows flammable cladding to stay in situ without mandatory requirement to show it’s passed a fire rig test if subjectively a fire engineer/assessor deems the risk ‘tolerable’ what do the families of the 72 dead at Grenfell and survivors say?
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BBC News - Residents fear new rules could mean dangerous cladding is left on blocks of flats "It shows the indifference and incompetence of the two different colours of government we've had in the last ten years," bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cw07… @PhilH23 @GideonJAmos @AlPinkerton
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Replying to @BBCNews
@BBCNews - Residents fear new PAS9980 rules could mean dangerous cladding is left on blocks of flats "Grenfell, cladding campaigners say even a tolerable risk is unacceptable and tower blocks should at least be repaired to meet the building regulations at the time they were built. This government enjoy playing a perverse game of Russian roulette and you know if that's the route they want to go down they need to be very very careful that that doesn't end up in another tower." @GideonJAmos @AlPinkerton @PhilH23 @EOCS_Official @WelshCladiators @EdwardJDavey @kevinhollinrake @andyburnham
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Chris Blythe OBE retweeted
You didn’t though. Infallibility’s not what it was I’m afraid…
By the way, the people who want to believe they found Noah's Ark are effectively saying they want Me to have wiped out the entire human race.
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Trapping more people into privately managed estates! Lovely
Welcome news for first time buyers. Your First Home scheme - 2.5% interest free fixed term equity loan up to 20% property value, new builds only, applications opening late 2026 bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cv8e…
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Chris Blythe OBE retweeted
For years new build customers have been paying the price of an underperforming sector, but you reward it? What’s the difference between Avanti and those that build dangerously defective homes?
For years, Avanti West Coast passengers have been left paying the price for underperforming services. Enough is enough. We will bring Avanti into public ownership.
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Replying to @TheMurkyDepths
You might want to look into this.. Labour really don't care about the public.. See below in today's Private Eye! Labour council in action. @MrOkereke
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Chris Blythe OBE retweeted
How the BBC should be reporting this. The only 'help' long term is to volume housebuilders. Watch their margins rocket.
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Chris Blythe OBE retweeted
“Ending 40 years of neoliberalism” latest: protecting developers’ superprofits to peddle more leasehold debt traps 🥴
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Calling all fire engineers - how can both fire assessment reports under PAS9980 be true? One reports says leave the XPS panels on whilst the other says take them off. Which report should the building owner believe? Reports below! Report 1 - lnkd.in/e-dW2CwT Report 2 - lnkd.in/eFEzeztB @GideonJAmos @LibdemCharlie @PeteApps @PhilH23 @AlPinkerton @KirstieMAllsopp @abenaopp
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The dangers of following PAS9980:2026 for post Grenfell remediations exposed by Lib Dem Housing Spokesman @GideonJAmos and @AlPinkerton in parliament. - It condemns people to permanently high insurance and is rejected by the ABI. - Allows highly combustible material banned on new buildings to remain on existing buildings (RAQ example). - Allows completely opposing fire engineering conclusions to both be true. - Encourages multiple remediations instead of fixing all the defects in one go. - Eliminates the need to check if defects breached building regulations at the time of construction. We must oppose this appalling remediation guidance from becoming law in the Remediation Bill which the government states is their intention as part of their Remediation Plan. Read PAS9980 for yourself - tinyurl.com/pas9980-2026 #LettingTheBuildersOffTheHook #GrenfellLessonsIgnored
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Replying to @Kwajotweneboa
And Labour are falsely denying the existence of all evidence of unlawful construction at Royal Artillery Quays and attempting to silence a Grenfell Inquiry KC!
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“This just isn’t right. Too many things in this country drift on and on and on without getting sorted." Two years ago, @andyburnham called on @ukLabour to take a different approach to the building safety crisis. Labour refused. The drift has only continued. 🧵
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Grenfell Inquiry Counsel Stephanie Barwise KC calls our Greenwich Council in an extensive substack on Royal Artillery Quays and the Labour Councillors threatening residents speaking up about building safety open.substack.com/pub/stepha…
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Chris Blythe OBE retweeted
This needs to go viral!
Labour pins hopes on foreign buyers unfamiliar with Leasehold in order to keep the scam ponzi going.
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If The Labour Party mean business, they will implement the Earl of Lytton's buildingsafetyscheme.org consumer protection legislation for buildings which assigns joint and several liability on the developer and lead contractor for fire safety and structural defects without the need of court proceedings. More here buildingsafetyscheme.org
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The Earl of Lytton questions why @Royal_Greenwich of Greenwich council are falsely denying the existence of all evidence of unlawful construction for over a year at blocks of flats in Woolwich putting 1000 residents at risk. As previously questioned by Stephanie Barwise KC here stephaniebarwise.substack.co… @emmadentcoad @GideonJAmos @abenaopp @CharlieJSDavis @David_Llew @JJamiecarswell
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“It’s a matter of basic justice" "Just free people from this living nightmare... That’s step one” 2️⃣ years of Labour have brought delay, drift and a remediation programme rated RED. An @andyburnham govt is the last chance for a reset on the building safety crisis. Read more ⬇️
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Chris Blythe OBE retweeted
Brilliant!
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