REPORT FROM VICE-PRESIDENT, ANT BURD

摘要

I fear I was right in my end of 2018 prediction that this year was going to be even busier than the last. We're onlyjust coming to the end of Ql and we are collectively already moving with far greater pace than last year-I really didn't think it possible. As I sit here at home in South London and write this the high winds are still gusting outside. I still recall when the Great Storm of 25th January 1990 (there was an earlier one in 1987 too) hit great swathes of the country and when it seemed like every affected locaL authority building control officer, even trainees like me, were out and about undertaking a considerable number of dangerous structure inspections. My claim to fame then was authorising the closure of Shaftesbury Avenue in the West End for all of an hour due to a precarious Looking chimney stack.