Effect On Housing
Newham Council voted to demolish Ronan Point in the autumn of 1984. The whole nine blocks on the estate, containing 990 flats, were demolished and the area rebuilt with twenty two-storey houses with gardens. Many other large panel system buildings like Ronan Point have since been demolished.
The Building Research Establishment published a series of reports in the 1980s to advise Councils and building owners on what they should do to check the structural stability of their LPS blocks. The contents of two of the reports relied on local authorities sending returns in to the Ministry of Housing over the years 1968–69. This was not exhaustive, with many authorities failing to do so and thus not having their blocks assessed after the issue of interim structural methods by the Ministry in 1968–69. Among these authorities were Birmingham, Lambeth and Southwark in London. Birmingham owned over 300 LPS blocks and when these were assessed in 1998 it was found that a number which did not meet 5 psi still had a piped gas supply. A number of these blocks were demolished.
The London Borough of Southwark owns the largest LPS estate in the UK — the Aylesbury Estate — which has a piped gas supply, and it has been queried whether the existing structure is strong enough to resist a 5 psi explosion.
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