Life critical fire safety defects at 80 Haringey Council blocks

Private Eye reports on fire risks at Haringey Council's 5+storey housing blocks.

There were life critical fire safety defects reported in all 80 blocks: defective fire doors, compartmentation breaches, and combustible external wall systems.

Amongst many other blocks, Newbury House and John Keats House in Wood Green each have 15 storeys, a single staircase, defective fire doors, and six vertical ribbons of combustible external panels up the sides of the building,

- but t hey are still rated at 'tolerable risk of fire', which means NO NEED for any major expenditure.

All of the elements of a major fire disaster are in place in this borough.

The question is, what is Haringey Council going to do about it?