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'Extensive investigations' reveal fire safety issues at Rochdale's landmark 'Seven Sisters' flats

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plans to demolish four of the blocks meant more ‘intrusive’ work could be carried out over recent weeks. Landlord Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) says its ‘extensive investigations’ - including examining the inside of walls - uncovered serious problems dating back to work carried out in the late 1990s.The structure of high rise flats should provide ‘compartmentation’ - which prevents fires from spreading between flats within the same block.Standard advice to residents has been to ‘stay put’ in the event of a blaze, to prevent tenants being overcome by smoke and allowing firefighters to deal with incidents quickly and safely.But due to the serious structural problems, this is changing to 'get out' at College Bank for tenants who becomes.

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