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Barratt hands staff £1,000 each to ease cost of living squeeze


Britain’s biggest house builder Barratt is handing staff an extra £1,000 each to help with the cost of living crisis.

It is the latest move by the housing giant to help workers after it brought forward the annual salary review from 1 July to 1 April 2022 awarding a 5% increase to all eligible employees.

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New flats to be demolished and rebuilt due to safety fears

A new development of 148 flats in east London will have to be knocked down and rebuilt after it was found they had not been built well enough.

The developer of The Factory at Hackney Wick said it had found "a potential structural issue" in the buildings.

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An Alternate view on East Ridge (Nimby Alert) - WALTHAM FOREST

Saturday, 1 May 2021 Extract... https://wfoc.blogspot.com/2021/05/east-ridge-previously-barclays.html East Ridge - previously Barclays  EAST RIDGE Barclays is closing its Walthamstow branch to make way for another 18 storey sky scrapper! It will have 66 flats to house more people trying to get on the already congested Victoria Line. Does this mean the end of Barclays in Walthamstow? […]

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Plans for 18-storey tower in Walthamstow approved

A new high-rise block will be built in Walthamstow town centre despite neighbours’ concerns about light and privacy.

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