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Dundee council to spend £4m replacing its own roofs in safety blunder
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dailyrecord.co.ukDundee councillors have agreed to spend more than £4 million to fix roofs their own workers installed that did not meet British safety regulations.
More than 400 homes are affected by the blunder, which went undetected for four years. The issue relates to a revision of the national standards dictating how roof tiles should be installed.In 2015, the British Standard was revised requiring tiles to be attached to buildings with a greater number of fixings to counter increased high winds in the UK.
However, the updated rules were not adopted by Dundee City Council housing bosses until 2019 - by which time hundreds of new roofs had been installed that were not up to scratch.
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