“ Hundreds” of schools in England could contain concrete at risk of collapsing, Education Secretary Gillian Keegan said on Monday as she revealed around 1,500 are yet to return building surveys. A... Read more »
They are just a few examples of the more than 100 schools in England which are facing the possibility of closure due to safety concerns. The concrete in question is known as... Read more »
The government has finally published a list of schools identified with collapse-prone concrete after days of mounting pressure. The document, released by the Department for Education, showed the start of term had... Read more »
The first day of secondary school is always a daunting experience – and it is especially so this term for year 7s in west London starting at a school with crumbling concrete... Read more »
U nstable concrete causing classrooms to be shut at more than 100 schools in England may be found in other public buildings, experts have warned. Reinforced autoclaved aerated concrete (Raac), often found... Read more »
A new railway tunnel in Peterborough has opened today (December 9), reducing congestion on the East Coast Main Line by carrying freight trains underneath the line. The latest step in the £1.2... Read more »
In the centre of a housing estate in Gipsy Hill is a concrete five-a-side football and basketball pitch. It is surrounded by low-standing walls and, rising above the bricks, is a high... Read more »
Hanging high on the walls above our heads, paintings of clouds encircle the South London Gallery. There’s weather coming in, growing more and more troubled as we look. Alvaro Barrington has used... Read more »
Lucy Rowe’s son can’t stop coughing. At night the hacking sound wakes his two brothers in the bunks below and Lucy has to help them go back to sleep. Once they are... Read more »
We can’t resist tinkering with our homes. In the Eighties we knocked by way of rooms and reached into the rafters so as to add loft extensions. In the Nineteen Nineties aspect... Read more »
