Safety work to start soon on council's London flats

MANSFIELD District Council says residents living in a London apartment block that it owns are being sent letters this week telling them work will soon begin to remedy fire risk problems.

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The Labour-run council bought the block of 40 flats, on Bedford Road in Clapham, as an investment in 2017 when it was under the control of the Mansfield Independents. It cost the council just under £6m, and the authority had been planning to use the block as a source of income as its finances tightened following austerity measures introduced by previous governments.