Fire Safety – Southwark News https://southwarknews.co.uk The independent voice of the London Borough of Southwark Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:57:38 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://southwarknews.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2021/09/cropped-S-News-Twitter-Logo-2-1-32x32.jpg Fire Safety – Southwark News https://southwarknews.co.uk 32 32 Woman rescued from fire at block of flats in Deptford   https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/deptford/woman-rescued-from-fire-at-block-of-flats-in-deptford/ https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/deptford/woman-rescued-from-fire-at-block-of-flats-in-deptford/#respond Mon, 20 Apr 2026 14:57:32 +0000 https://southwarknews.co.uk/?p=478111

A woman was rescued from a fire in a second floor flat in Deptford at the weekend, writes Francesca Papp… The woman was rescued from the blaze on Grinstead Road on Sunday morning from a window with a nine-metre ladder. Another man managed to evacuate the flat before the brigade arrived and both taken to […]]]> https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/deptford/woman-rescued-from-fire-at-block-of-flats-in-deptford/feed/ 0 Bermondsey family cannot flog home over council’s fire safety dithering https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermondsey/bermondsey-family-cannot-flog-home-over-councils-fire-safety-dithering/ https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermondsey/bermondsey-family-cannot-flog-home-over-councils-fire-safety-dithering/#comments Wed, 15 Jan 2025 18:31:31 +0000 https://southwarknews.co.uk/?p=429363 One leaseholder, who asked to remain anonymous, said two buyers had pulled out of purchasing her flat because they were unable to get banks to lend without an EWS1 form

South London leaseholders can’t sell their homes because of a council’s delays in issuing fire safety certificates that prospective buyers require to get a mortgage from the bank.  Victoria Gatenby, 47, who owns a flat in Wrayburn House in Bermondsey has been trying to get one of the certificates, called EWS1 forms, from her freeholder […]]]> https://southwarknews.co.uk/area/bermondsey/bermondsey-family-cannot-flog-home-over-councils-fire-safety-dithering/feed/ 1