The week that was: 24 July – 30 July

During the sixth week after the Grenfell Tower disaster, Sajid Javid created the Grenfell recovery taskforce, which will check the council’s handling of the Grenfell disaster on behalf of the government, and the Metropolitan Police announced that there are reasonable grounds to suspect the council and the KCTMO of corporate manslaughter. It was also revealed that work to shroud the tower in a gigantic protective wrap will begin in the middle of August.

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Notting Hill police station to be closed and sold

Notting Hill police station is to be closed and sold, unless an ongoing consultation about proposed cost cutting solutions for the Met results in a different solution. If it happens, Kensington police station will be the only police station in Kensington and Chelsea. A doubling of ward dedicated officers and better online services are to make up for the loss.

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