A Recipe for Disaster: Hiring a Culprit in Housing Leadership The appointment of Laura Johnson, former director of housing at the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) during the Grenfell Tower debacle, as permanent director of development and property at the Barnet Group has sparked widespread outrage among survivors and bereaved relatives.
This move is a slap in the face to those who lost loved ones in the 2017 fire and highlights the lack of accountability in public institutions.
Johnson's tenure at RBKC was marked by reckless cost cutting measures, which led to the substitution of combustible materials for metal cladding on Grenfell Tower despite warnings from experts about the risks they posed.