Motion
- Motion title
- Housing safety for staff and students
- Session
- 2020-2021
- Meeting link
- Annual Congress
- Meeting date
- 29 May 2021
- Status
- Passed
- Motion
- 32
- Motion text
Grenfell demonstrated that privatisation has decimated safety in the communities our staff and students live in and is having a devastating effect on the lives and educational opportunities. Grenfell has opened up a Pandora’s Box of historical building defects, ranging from cladding to cavity barrier installation, in flats of 11m and above.
The government has made available £5b to cover cladding issues alone but this is a drop in the ocean of the money required to fix historical defects in flats, not built to regulation at the time of construction but sold as safe.
Congress resolves:
1. To support the MacPartland-Smith amendment (or similar) that prevents freeholders from passing on fire safety remedial costs and honour the commitment to act on the recommendations from phase one of the Grenfell Tower Inquiry.
2. To encourage members to lobby MPs to support this
3. To support campaigns for housing security for all.
- Proposing body
- Trafford College Group
- Amended
- No
- Allocated to
- Strategy and finance committee (SFC)
- Notes
Administrative info
- Listing reference
- 2021/C/05-29/155/32