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Aberdeen City Council has yet to agree the purchase of a single privately-owned home impacted by potentially dangerous concrete, a meeting has been told. The local authority wants to buy the 138 ...
Around 1,500 schools are yet to complete checks to find out whether they have RAAC, and another 450 suspect they do but are waiting for an official assessment.
Hundreds of schools, hospitals, and other public buildings made from RAAC, a cheap, lightweight concrete, have to close—the victims of quick fixes and decades of cost-cutting.
Cambridge’s City Council voted to end exclusionary single-family zoning, a historic rezoning that will allow up to six-story residential buildings to be permitted and built in each of Cambridge ...
A contentious form of concrete that forced buildings in over a hundred schools to close has been found in the UK Houses of Parliament. Mitigations will be put in place as necessary after one area ...
A council partnership has seen 1,000 new homes built in Cambridge. Cambridge City Council teamed up with housebuilder The Hill Group to address the city’s housing needs by delivering high ...
Regarding Raac in particular, schools minister Nick Gibb stated that the DfE “only holds partial data”. His department is asking schools to complete a questionnaire to identify the greatest needs.
Council fixes 55,000 potholes but 'the roads in and around Cambridge are a disgrace' Department for Transport (DfT) asked local highway authorities to produce transparency reports on maintenance ...
UK rapper Stormzy has been honoured with an honorary law degree from the University of Cambridge, recognising his wide-ranging philanthropic work in education, music, sport, and literature. The ...
A campaigner fighting to get more help for home-owners hit by the RAAC scandal walked out of the Scottish Parliament in disgust after MSPs rejected their petition.
West Lothian council has been left with a £15m shortfall when rebuilding a school in Blackburn. West Lothian Council 'can't afford' school's £35m Raac rebuild Skip to main content ...