Lambeth council had said that it has completed an urgent review of fire risk assessments for properties it manages after Conservative opposition leader Tim Briggs, a councillor for Clapham Common, warned of “chaos” in the council over the assessments.
In an open letter to council chief executive Sean Harriss, Briggs quoted a report considered by the council’s corporate committee at the end of September.
He said it showed that, “of a sample of 23 buildings assessed by council audit officers, 12 did not have up-to-date fire risk assessments, rating Lambeth’s failure as ‘critical’. Seven of those 12 had not been assessed for more than three years.
