What Charles Saumarez Smith thinks about housing
British architectural historian and museum director; director of the National Portrait Gallery from 1994 to 2002, of the National Gallery from 2002 to 2007, and secretary and chief executive of the Royal Academy of Arts from 2007 to 2018.
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Our readingBritish councils are often careless about maintaining high-rise housing and ignore fire warnings.
Their wordscouncils, and not just Tory ones, are often cavalier about maintenance and ignore the warnings of potential fire and its consequences.