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The FMB’s official charity partner, the Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity, has joined forces with Lofty Heights Skills Academy to encourage young NEET (Not in Education, Employment, or Training) people to choose construction as a career. The charity’s free soft skills e-learning training covers wellbeing issues with topics including banter vs bullying, managing stress, and understanding anxiety. Sarah Bolton, Chief Operating Officer at The Lighthouse Construction Industry Charity, said: “This is a crucial time for our young NEET community and helping them to develop effective social and emotional wellbeing skills will support them in their new environments. This collaboration will also ensure that the next generation are well equipped to navigate the daily challenges of life and, in turn, they too can help drive change to support a positive wellbeing culture in the industry. “We are in the unique position of being able to help with every aspect of emotional, physical and financial wellbeing so this also gives us an opportunity to share our many pathways to additional support for our young NEET community, offering 24/7 free and confidential advice and guidance on a huge variety of issues.” The Lighthouse Charity supports NEET people
T wo residential tower blocks in South London will be demolished in the wake of a planning row. Developer Comer Homes Group has been ordered to demolish the tower blocks, which were completed in 2022 and already house residents, at Mast Quay Phase II in Woolwich after Greenwich Council launched enforcement action. The council said the build-to-rent development deviated from the original planning permission granted in 2012, including changes to cladding and design that make the towers look “more solid and bulky” as well as the absence of the proposed roof garden for residents and children’s play areas and gardens.
Greenwich Council said: “The Council believes that the only reasonable and proportionate way to rectify the harm created by the finished Mast Quay Phase II development to the local area and the tenants living there, because of the changes made during its construction, is the complete demolition and the restoration of the land to its former condition.” Councillor Anthony Okereke, Leader of the Royal Borough of Greenwich, said: “The right thing to do is not usually the easy thing to do. That is why we will not standby and allow poor quality and unlawful development anywhere in our borough and we are not afraid of taking difficult decisions when we believe it’s the right thing to do.”
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