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Rachel Cleave posted events

Our Christmas lunch celebration
December 12, 2025 from 12pm to 2pm
Patient Panel with Together Better and new Befriending Service
December 5, 2025 from 10am to 11:30am

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Shirley posted events

The Book Fair at St Giles’ church
November 19, 2025 at 11am to November 30, 2025 at 6:30pm
Carers Rights Day Event - St Giles Church 10-2pm
November 20, 2025 from 10am to 2pm

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Does anyone have flat documentation for Crescent House flats?

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Fire Sprinklers - A Tale of Two Cities [Even Leaseholders Might Be Interested in This!]

Many people will have heard on the media that Birmingham City Council has committed to, and has apparently costed, installing sprinklers in all it's high rise blocks - covering all 213 residential blocks is going to cost them £31 million.

Which is quite puzzling to some of us tenants - because, put simply, we are struggling to understand why the City is therefore quoting a cost of £15 -20 million to install sprinklers in just 33 residential blocks?

We recognise that there are differences in design but, having checked with Birmingham, a larger proportion of their stock are 11 storeys plus (a substantial proportion are 15 storeys or more) and a number of designs are quite complex (e.g. one features 145 flats over floors 4-15, with open pilotis areas, integral and free standing structures housing retail, commercial and community space from the ground to 3rd floor).

Yet there the figures were in the Housing Sub-Committee Report on Fire Safety on 3rd July.

Apparently no-one on that Committee picked up on this or queried it, because they're there again in the Report going to tomorrow's Community & Children's Services [Friday 14th July]

In addition, Appendix A of this Report lists not only the City's social housing, but also residential buildings on the Barbican Estate. The quoted figure of £15 -20 million doesn't differentiate between these two - it's not clear how much of this (or any of the other figures quoted) would therefore fall to the Housing Revenue Account (and ultimately individual tenants and leaseholders) and how much is payable by those in the Barbican..........

Report attached below - see Paragraph 18