Student flats built near gas depot – Wolverhampton
A city council has been criticised by a High Court judge for failing to alert the Health and Safety Executive before allowing hundreds of flats for students to be built near a potentially hazardous gas storage depot.
Mr Justice Collins, sitting in London, said the safety body should have been told that Wolverhampton city council was proposing the construction of four blocks of flats to accommodate university students within 100 metres of a depot storing liquid petroleum gas (LPG).
When the HSE became aware of the plans, which received permission in August 2008, it advised the flats should not be permitted because of the risk of a gas explosion …