A slow response risks collapse disaster

You can imagine the baffling letter hitting the resident’s doormat. It’s on government notepaper and states in dauntingly obscure Whitehall language: “The LPS block you live in may not have been investigated in accordance with the MHLG Circular 62/68 (1968) or the BRE guidance published in 1987.”

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