Richard Snape
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first heard May 2026
last heard 22 Jul
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with over two with something like two hundred and ten bedrooms in it.
And uh they uh
So they sort of started trading.
Uh they were the freeholders originally, but in two thousand and five, two thousand and six they had problems with the construction, not with fire safety on this occasion, but uh there had to be all kind of structural works.
There were planning was falling on people and their way to Wembley Stadium.
And uh they um
As a consequence, well, they clad in had to be um sort of replaced and the likes quite substantial by the sounds of it.
In two thousand and seven they sold the reversion and got a lease back at the premises.
They sold it to an associate of London Property Group and eventually London Property Group became
Landlords and they took on responsibility for the exterior, unfortunately, for themselves.
They were responsible for maintenance and keeping the exterior of the hotel in good condition.
And they took on that liability just a month before Grenfell.
Grenfell was on june the fourteenth, two thousand and seventeen.
Doesn't seem that long ago, actually.
Um post Grenfell, you know, they were doing various is inspections alike two or three years ago, and found it had category three ACM.
cladding, the same kind of cladding aluminium composites, with a polyethylene core that had caused the Grenfell fire to spread so rapidly.
So they obviously had to do something about him.
And it was decided in July of twenty twenty five that the risks were so great that they would have to close down the hotel.
And uh basically the landlord London Property Group refused to do anything about replacing the cladding and claimed it was um Ascendi's uh fault and that's what gave rise to the case.
Which you know, the problem is that the the Building Safety Act there.
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