Grenfell Tower survivors take up nine offers of permanent homes

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"2">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Nine offers of permanent accommodation have been accepted by Grenfell survivors whose homes were destroyed&comma; while one household has already moved in to a new home&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The leader of Kensington and Chelsea Council&comma; Elizabeth Campbell&comma; said she hoped more of the 180-plus households in hotels and temporary accommodation would be rehoused as soon as possible&comma; but according to &&num;8220&semi;their need&comma; not speed&&num;8221&semi;&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>And she pledged to spend &&num;8220&semi;every penny&&num;8221&semi; of the council&&num;8217&semi;s vast reserves on rehousing those affected by the tragedy if necessary&comma; with £76 million set to be made available in a leadership meeting on Thursday&period; Some £30 million has already been allocated by the council for rehousing&comma; Ms Campbell said&comma; while it is costing the council £1&comma;000 per household per week to keep families in temporary accommodation&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;It&&num;8217&semi;s a lot of money&comma; tens of millions of pounds&comma; but that&&num;8217&semi;s what that money is there for&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We&&num;8217&semi;ve built up reserves and we built them up in case of emergencies&comma; and this is an emergency&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;And we will spend that&period; And that&&num;8217&semi;s right that we should do it &&num;8211&semi; these are our neighbours&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>&&num;8220&semi;If you don&&num;8217&semi;t spend money on your neighbours in an emergency&comma; then when do you spend it&quest;&&num;8221&semi;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She was speaking at one of the flats earmarked for Grenfell survivors on Hortensia Road &&num;8211&semi; an hour away by foot &lpar;about three miles&rpar; from the charred tower block where they once lived&period; The other two locations are Kensington Row&comma; with 68 units &lpar;about 1&period;7 miles from the tower&rpar; and Tavistock Crescent with six properties &lpar;0&period;9 miles away&rpar;&comma; while one other house is also available&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;IMG&lowbar;3074&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;IMG&lowbar;3074&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"399" class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117566" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>They make up a total of 105 properties&comma; with the council planning to buy more from registered housing providers and on the private market&period; Since August 21&comma; survivors have been able to browse brochures and register their interest in permanent homes in the three locations on a website set up by the council&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Some 134 people have logged in to the website and expressed an interest within the first three days&comma; said Ms Campbell&period; At least 20 permanent offers have been made&comma; and 31 viewings conducted&comma; the council said&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;One of the 23 households in temporary accommodation&comma; initially accepted on a 12-month basis&comma; decided they wanted to make their new home permanent&comma; it added&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;IMG&lowbar;3073&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;IMG&lowbar;3073&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"399" class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117565" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Campbell said she was &&num;8220&semi;really pleased&&num;8221&semi; with feedback from residents and denied they were being made to bid against each other&comma; saying each home would only be viewed and offered to one household at a time&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;She said&colon; &&num;8220&semi;People aren&&num;8217&semi;t bidding&comma; they are saying what their preference is&period;<br &sol;>&NewLine;&&num;8220&semi;We won&&num;8217&semi;t show anyone a flat if they can&&num;8217&semi;t come in and say &&num;8216&semi;I want this flat&&num;8217&semi; and we say &&num;8216&semi;sign up&&num;8217&semi;&period;&&num;8221&semi;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><a href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;IMG&lowbar;3072&period;jpg"><img src&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;londonglossy&period;com&sol;wp-content&sol;uploads&sol;2017&sol;08&sol;IMG&lowbar;3072&period;jpg" alt&equals;"" width&equals;"600" height&equals;"399" class&equals;"aligncenter size-full wp-image-117564" &sol;><&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>She added&colon; &&num;8220&semi;Absolutely every single person will be phoned up&comma; we will engage one-to-one and we will do it with them&period;&&num;8221&semi; People will have until September 1 to register their preference on the website&comma; but Ms Campbell said those who felt unable to engage would be pro-actively approached and helped&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Ms Campbell said she would consider &&num;8220&semi;all options&&num;8221&semi; for future management of the estate&comma; after the Prime Minister told residents the tenant management organisation &lpar;TMO&rpar; would stop overseeing it&period; Theresa May acknowledged concerns about the culture of the council&comma; the pace of its response following the fire and the TMO during a meeting with residents on Tuesday evening&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Elizabeth Campbell said she had written to the TMO seeking a &&num;8220&semi;swift transition&&num;8221&semi; of responsibilities for the Lancaster West estate to the council and promised to consult with residents about future plans&period; 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