FOI: Large Panel System (LPS) buildings

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Dear Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council,

Following the letter sent by the Department for Communities and Local Government regarding the safety of Large Panel System (LPS) buildings, can you provide details of the last time you carried out a structural survey of LPS blocks, what the survey found, and whether any action was taken as a result.

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Can you also provide a list of the names of LPS blocks the organisation owns, and which LPS blocks have been demolished while under your organisation's control.

Yours faithfully,

Basia Cummings

FOI Unit, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Requestor,
RE: - Request For Information

Thank you for your request for information held by Rochdale Council which
was received by us on 03/08/2018 regarding INT-321076-M1B7K6: Safety of
Large Panel System (LPS) buildings.

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under the Freedom of Information Act.
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FOI Unit, Rochdale Metropolitan Borough Council

Dear Basia Cummings 505888 ,

 

Further to your Freedom of Information Request which was received on
03/08/2018 22:00, I am emailing to request some clarification in relation
to your queries.

 

Within your request, you asked:

 

Following the letter sent by the Department for Communities and Local
Government regarding the safety of Large Panel System (LPS) buildings, can
you provide details of the last time you carried out a structural survey
of LPS blocks, what the survey found, and whether any action was taken as
a result.

Please clarify the type of buildings i.e. residential tower blocks or all
tower blocks including residential and business.

 

We would appreciate it if you could provide this clarification to us at
[1][email address]

 

Please be aware that if we do not hear from you within three months, we
will need to assume that you are no longer interested in receiving the
information for the queried questions, and will close your request on our
system.

 

Regards

 

 

Information Governance Unit

Customers & ICT

Floor 2, Number One Riverside

Smith Street, Rochdale, OL16 1XU

 

Email: [2][Rochdale Council request email]
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above named, please delete or destroy the email and any attachments
immediately and inform the sender of the error. Unauthorised access, use,
disclosure, storage or copying is not permitted and may be unlawful.  The
views of the author may not necessarily reflect those of Rochdale Borough
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