<p>Dangerous Structures</p>

Part of 4. 3. Topical Questions – in the Senedd at 3:25 pm on 19 July 2017.

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Photo of Jenny Rathbone Jenny Rathbone Labour 3:25, 19 July 2017

Obviously, as it is the matter of a possible criminal investigation, we need to be very careful what we say here, but my understanding is that the building had already been identified by Natural Resources Wales as being in an unsafe state, and that is why the owner had been directed to demolish it. But, clearly, the issue that arises here is the quality of the risk assessment that needed to be carried out to ensure that the building was demolished safely. Obviously, that is one of the issues we need to await the inquiry for, but I don’t think there’s any reason to assume that just because a particular building has tragically collapsed that therefore other buildings are about to collapse. One doesn’t follow from the other.