Chris Blythe OBE

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.

@JohnFernandez1 How much did they lose in 2025 never mind 2026.

Guernsey's States-owned airline has been projected to make a £5m loss this year. The President of STSB has blamed "cannibalisation" of passengers on the services to London by the new British Airways Heathrow route. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Good news lexology.com/library/detail…

Leading Grenfell Inquiry KC calls out @Royal_Greenwich council for council position denying evidence of unlawful construction at 8 towers blocks in Woolwich.

Dear @Royal_Greenwich Council, *Denial of existence of all our evidence of unlawful construction at the time of build as council position * The residents committee of the 1000 residents of Royal Artillery Quays in your borough (8 tall blocks of flats) have demonstrated the below written council position to be false that denies the existence of all our evidence of unlawful construction at the time of build. This is the council position you wrote to us: "Further to your enquiry regarding the possibility of enforcement action under Section 36(6) of the Building Act 1984, and following advice from external legal counsel, we set out below the Council’s position... There is no evidence that the original construction breached Building Regulations in force at the time." It's nearly been a whole long year since this false position was sent to us, you were at the time and are sitting on all the evidence that contradicts this position, will you please withdraw it. Thank you. Please learn the lessons of the Grenfell fire where a similar council dismissed residents also. @GideonJAmos @LibdemCharlie @abenaopp @dominicahern @PhilH23 @GeoffWilkinson @MattLismore @TheMurkyDepths @LibDemPress @EastGCllrs @GreenGreenwich @libdemdaisy @mtpennycook @MrOkereke @JJamiecarswell #JournoRequest #Grenfell

Anyone buying a home MUST do their due diligence and see what the risk is of becoming a mortgage prisoner whether, it be flooding, leasehold or shared ownership Flooding may make half a million households ‘mortgage prisoners’ by 2050 thetimes.com/article/1aab59…

The worst home scheme of all Shared ownership ‘trapping a generation’ in homes they can’t sell telegraph.co.uk/money/property…

@InsideHousing exposes the dangerous PAS9980 fire safety remediation guidance that allows dangerous material banned on new buildings to remain on existing including EPS plus the dire insurance repercussions : "Several – including some of the affordable housing blocks – have expanded polystyrene (EPS) insulation rendered onto the walls. They are also fitted with timber balconies. Both of these elements come with a potentially serious fire risk: EPS systems have been shown to have a disastrous performance in official safety tests, while government-sponsored testing on timber balconies last year said they “demonstrated poor fire performance”. Put them together on the walls of a tall building, and you might expect it to be a prime candidate for remediation. Except it isn’t. Despite having been built by a major signatory to the government’s ‘developer remediation contract’ (under which developers promise to pay for the remediation of blocks they built), the insulation and balconies are staying on the walls. The fire safety strategy for the building remains ‘stay put’. ... Even after a building is remediated to a PAS 9980 standard, building owners can still end up paying inflated insurance costs, sometimes 400% higher than they were previously." linkedin.com/posts/stevemda… @PhilH23 @PeteApps @BldgSafetyReg @LibdemCharlie @moving_charlie @GeoffWilkinson @drfsawtell @Royal_Greenwich

Poor building quality is not restricted to leasehold flats. Mould-hit Glasgow super-hospital may need new cancer ward thetimes.com/article/250ac1…

Even the photo is fake.

Not so great a contingency plan in reality. Replacement aircraft sent last night went tech this morning- knocks a hole in the availability statistics Contingency plan in place after flight disruption bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Today marks 105 months since the Grenfell fire — a tragedy that showed what happens when profit is put before people. Dirty Business on C4 is a stark reminder that systems allowing dangerous shortcuts and weak oversight cost lives. Remember Grenfell. Demand accountability.

As if the building safety crisis is not enough. Homes built in flood-prone areas ‘will never get insurance’ thetimes.com/article/f1585c…

Our response to today's Grenfell Inquiry Recommendation update 💚

Dyson settles forced labour suit in landmark UK case bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

@mtpennycook To do that you need to implement the Earl of Lytton's buildingsafetyscheme.org consumer protection legislation for buildings

@10DowningStreet Please don’t share this you may upset the precious one

@moving_charlie You should pick your conveyancer yourself - even if you think the referral fee is reasonable who is the conveyancer going to be afraid of upsetting? The one who pays their bill or the hand that feeds them?

Intersting case. Even luxury apartments can have poor building standards. lexology.com/library/detail…

Unfortunately not.