Department For Communities
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Lease on Harland & Wolff site would limit residential or commercial development
- Commercial Property
- August 14, 2019, 05:00
Administrators in charge of Harland & Wolff cannot simply sell off the Belfast shipyard site it occupies purely for commercial or residential(...)

‘Big Brother’ surveillance in North ‘causing mental distress and paranoia’
- Irish News
- August 8, 2019, 01:00
A covert policing commissioner for Northern Ireland should be appointed to deal with complaints from people such as welfare recipients and asylum seek(...)

Full text of Northern Secretary’s leaked briefings on crunch NI issues
- Irish News
- June 17, 2018, 22:14
A document sent to outlets on Sunday night about a media opportunity with Northern Secretary Karen Bradley today, contains briefing lines for her to u(...)

North’s department overlooked equality tests in Irish language scheme
- Irish News
- June 1, 2018, 19:48
Stormont’s Department for Communities (DfC) failed to carry out necessary equality tests before cutting a £50,000 Irish language bursary scheme for di(...)

Thousands of people living in Northern Ireland have been forced from their homes over the past five years, but just 32 criminal convictions for housin(...)

Sixty towers found to be unsafe after Grenfell fire disaster
- UK
- June 25, 2017, 17:06
Test results in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster have revealed that 60 high-rise buildings in 25 different areas of England are unsafe, the UK (...)

Sixty English tower blocks found to have unsafe cladding
- UK
- June 24, 2017, 11:53
Test results on building materials in the wake of the Grenfell Tower disaster have revealed that 60 high-rise blocks in 25 areas of England are unsafe(...)

Camden tower block residents evacuated over fire safety fears
- UK
- June 23, 2017, 20:50
Eight hundred households are to be evacuated from a council estate in north London in the wake of the Grenfell Tower fire to allow “urgent fire safety(...)

The fire that killed at least 79 people at a London tower block started in a fridge freezer, and the outside cladding engulfed by the blaze has since(...)

Northern Ireland inquiry into withdrawal of £50,000 Líofa grant
- Irish News
- June 16, 2017, 00:01
The North’s Equality Commission is to investigate controversial funding decisions made by the Department for Communities that played a part in the cri(...)