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Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea aims to improve housing safety in response to Grenfell Inquiry
The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) said it will give vulnerable residents personal evacuation plans in its draft housing strategy for 2025-2030.
The second of the strategy’s three priorities is to ensure the council’s homes are safe following the Grenfell fire that claimed 72 lives in 2017. It said it will implement a ‘new protocol for sharing information between departments about vulnerable residents so they can be given personal risk assessments and evacuation plans, and assisted properly in an emergency.’
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