Peter Apps
The building safety crisis and other black elephants
A 'black elephant' risk is one which is foreseeable and preventable, but is wilfully overlooked by those who have the chance to do something about it. The Grenfell Tower fire and the crisis which has emerged since are classic examples of this sort of collective failure. Pete Apps, who has written widely about the fire, its causes and its aftermath, looks into what this tells us about how we can prevent the next preventable disaster.
Biography
Peter Apps is an award-winning journalist and Deputy Editor at Inside Housing. He broke a story on the dangers of combustible cladding thirty-four days before the Grenfell Fire. He has not stopped reporting on this national tragedy since, and his coverage of the public inquiry has received widespread acclaim. He lives in London.
