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Feedback from last weeks planning meeting ... MACE were still unable to give any completion dates, they explained that the testing they are having to undertake is massively more complex than was expected, a direct and understandable result of Grenfell, whereas they were used to being given a period of time to rectify identified problems after safety certificates had been issued, this is no longer the case. Tests are ongoing with no set finish date ....

The club will complete a Wembley planning application on behalf of Brent Council for the entirety of this season ... this will be for 62,000 and 90,000 depending on the game, an increase from the current 51,000 ....

The stadium is as good as ready, well it would be given the four week lead time between Safety Certificate and FLA Licence, however there was a notable lack of confidence compared to the previous week ....
 
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Feedback from last weeks planning meeting ... MACE were still unable to give any completion dates, they explained that the testing they are having to undertake is massively more complex than was expected, a direct and understandable result of Grenfell, whereas they were used to being given a period of time to rectify identified problems after safety certificates had been issued, this is no longer the case. Tests are ongoing with no set finish date ....

The club will complete a Wembley planning application on behalf of Brent Council for the entirety of this season ... this will be for 62,000 and 90,000 depending on the game, an increase from the current 51,000 ....

The stadium is as good as ready, well it would be given the four week lead time between Safety Certificate and FLA Licence, however there was a notable lack of confidence compared to the previous week ....
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'Feedback from last weeks planning meeting ... MACE were still unable to give any completion dates, they explained that the testing they are having to undertake is massively more complex than was expected, a direct and understandable result of Grenfell, whereas they were used to being given a period of time to rectify identified problems after safety certificates had been issued, this is no longer the case. Tests are ongoing with no set finish date'

I commented a couple of months after the Grenfell fire that residential blocks of flats were finding fire safety assessments were becoming more stringent, and wondered about the Spurs stadium.

So it comes as no real surprise to me the Grenfell Tower fire in June 2017 (well after the stadium build started with a programme saying when the stadium would be completed), affected the fire safety test process and probably was not evident to Mace until August/September time. And whilst some stuff probably couldn't have been overlooked (such as if there was widespread problems with wiring) a lot of more minor stuff might have been agreed to be 'fix within the next few months but here's your safety certificate on the understanding the work gets done' its now everything needs to be pretty much perfect to get the Safety Certificate.

Its probably right and proper that standards have been tightened up - but NWHL is still one of the first major builds to experience what that means in practice and it was certainly not foreseeable until relatively recently.

No wonder the club are reticent to commit to a date as its adding the 'new' fire safety regime to testing the integration of the overall management IT system with the fire alarms, sprinklers, PA systems etc all of which have their own proprietary operating systems which is always unpredictable, so its all very uncertain to predict when everything will be completed.
 
And the news, we've all been waiting for - the bird replacement nest scheme !
http://www.planningservices.haringey...et?PKID=306861

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