Mayor's damp home rental check pledge

Andy Burnham plans standard safety assessment for tenants

- ETHAN DAVIES

GREATER Manchester residents will have ‘the right to request a home safety check’ following the Awaab Ishak scandal, the Mayor has said.

Andy Burnham said the right will come in if he is re-elected in May, and suggested the checks could be carried out under existing ‘safe and well’ powers held by the fire service playing a ‘big role’, plus other agencies.

“No one in this city-region should be in a home that damages their health, and certainly not put their life at risk,” Mr Burnham told a press conference called to reveal the findings of the latest inspection into Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS).