AFTER GRENFELL; what has actually changed? – Feb 27th

Speakers: Pete Apps, Phil Murphy and Dr Stuart Hodkinson

Held in the Claremont Room at HEART, Bennett Road, Headingley.
Each session starts at 19.00 and finishes at 20.30 – though discussion can continue in the café.

Donation: £3 but no one turned away for lack of funds

The Event:

2025 will mark the 8th anniversary of the Grenfell Tower disaster that claimed the lives of 72 people. Successive governments have legislated on the auspices of preventing another Grenfell from ever happening again. A public inquiry into the disaster lasting six years has published wide-ranging findings and recommendations. Our speakers will reflect on the root causes of the disaster, the wider building safety crisis and what has actually changed in policy and practice.

The Speakers:

Pete Apps is a freelance journalist focusing on housing. His book, Show Me the Bodies: How We Let Grenfell Happen (Simon and Schuster 2022) won the Orwell Prize in 2023.
Phil Murphy is a former firefighter and was the lead technical fire safety author of the government’s Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS) Addendum for High Rise Buildings. He is a longstanding campaigner on housing safety.
Dr Stuart Hodkinson is an Associate Professor in Critical Urban Geography at the University of Leeds. His analysis of the devastating impact of neoliberal policies was set out in ‘Safe as Houses: Private Greed, Political Negligence and Housing Policy After Grenfell (Manchester University Press). He is currently involved in the Manchester Social Housing Commission.