Construction work is underway for a new community centre located on Tarling Road, East Finchley. This community centre will be used to house a group who have recently been made homeless by a fire. The new community centre will be the new base for the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association, who
Due to the horrendous event at Grenfell Tower this year, the London Fire Brigade have publicly criticised the apparent overall lack of competence show by building designers as well as construction companies. In order to make sure that eh people designing and constructing out buildings have the knowledge to ensure
The Scottish Housebuilder of the Year 2017 has revealed that they will be working with St Andrews First Aid, Good Egg Safety and the regional Community Safety Teams in order to implement a new Child Safety at Home Campaign for Scotland. The winners of the Housebuilder of the Year award
Construction work is underway for a new community centre located on Tarling Road, East Finchley. This community centre will be used to house a group who have recently been made homeless by a fire. The new community centre will be the new base for the Somali Bravanese Welfare Association, who saw their previous home destroyed by a fire that happened in 2013. This new Tarling Road Community Hub will replace the Old Barnet community centre and will feature a range of new updated facilities including a large space for learning as well as a large meeting hall and a cafe with seating area. The plans to build the centre have been approved by the planning committee from Barnet Council in March last year. It was thought that around 100 people attended the consultations in order to see what the new community centre would look like. The Mayor of Barnet has said that is treat that work is underway at the site and when completed the area will once again have a community centre. When the project is completed, Tarling Road will hold a fit for purpose new facility that all of the local community groups will be able to make use of. This will be of great benefit to the local community and the feedback to the plans for the site have been positive. The construction work will for the Tarling Road Community Hub will be led by Graham Construction. The Graham group offers a range of services such as construction, investment projects and asset management. The Group has carried out a large number of projects for a range of different sectors, from education, healthcare, community, commercial, residential, leisure, hotels, transport and restoration and heritage. The projects completed by Graham includes the Seaborne Library for the University of Chester, Royston Care Home in Edinburgh and Lews Castle in Stornoway.
Due to the horrendous event at Grenfell Tower this year, the London Fire Brigade have publicly criticised the apparent overall lack of competence show by building designers as well as construction companies. In order to make sure that eh people designing and constructing out buildings have the knowledge to ensure that the completed product is safe for use, a number of high-ranking figures in the London Fire Brigade have said that training and certification is needed to assure inhabitants and ensure such a terrible event never happens again. It is thought that is there is no action taken, there will be an increase in the number of serious building fires taking place. In order to prevent this, it is vital that the construction industry starts to take fire safety more seriously. This criticism has been submitted by the fire department to Dame Judith Hackitt’s independent review into building regulation and fire safety. BESA has also been working with their members in order to highlight the need for a greater assignment of responsibility as a part of their own submission to the Hackitt Review. The Hackitt Review is an independent review into building regulations and fire safety which has been commissioned after the Grenfell Tower fire tragedy. The review will urgently consider the effectiveness of the current building and fire regulations and how they are connected to compliance and enforcement issues. The review will also consider whether the Government’s large scale cladding system testing programme has found any potential systemic failures. It is the responsibility of the design and construction companies to make sure that buildings are built with the proper fire safety measures. However, it has been considered that the construction industry holds a general lack of competence that could lead to dangerous decisions being made and more lives taken in the future is nothing is done to change this.
The Scottish Housebuilder of the Year 2017 has revealed that they will be working with St Andrews First Aid, Good Egg Safety and the regional Community Safety Teams in order to implement a new Child Safety at Home Campaign for Scotland. The winners of the Housebuilder of the Year award for 2017, Barratt and David Wilson Homes have made the decision to join forces with these safety organisations as a part of a concerted effort to safeguard more Scottish families. The company, together with St Andrews, Good Egg Safety and Community Safety Teams have launched this safety drive after discovering that more than two million UK children under the age of 15 are hospitalised every year because of accidents that have occurred while playing at home. The Sales and Marketing Director of Barratt Homes and David Wilson Homes, Mike Cowie has said that Scottish communities are an essential part of their business, and because of this, the Housebuilder of the Year 2017 works to actively take health and safety expertise into schools in order to pass on their specialist knowledge and good safety practices and help to keep school children safe. A survey has been carried out recently by Play Scotland, which is a charitable organisation that has been funded by the Scottish Government and works to highlight the importance of play for all children. The organisation has released as a part of this survey that parents are experiencing increasing levels of anxiety about traffic, stranger danger and a lack of safe play areas. This anxiety has led to more and more children being kept indoors. With the support of the safety organisations working as partners for Barratt and David Wilson Homes, the property developer is holding a number of free home safety events in their show homes across Scotland. These events have a clear focus on child safety and first aid in the home. There will also be a home safety roadshow that will tour local parent and toddler groups to offer the same information to the parents there. It is hoped that these event will help to educate parents about the basics of child first aid, while also offering support and advice about how to mitigate accidents at home. On offer at these seminars will be a free selection of Good Egg Safety In-Home Safety Guides in the sales offices across Scotland, these pamphlets will be available for parents to take home and use to implement safety features and practices in their own home.
