Before a block of flats can be occupied, the owners must obtain a "final certificate" confirming that it complies with safety legislation.
The report said overcharging had been uncovered, including claiming for the inspection of lights at a block of flats which had been demolished.
Workers will go inside a collapsed culvert to investigate how a block of flats was left close to collapse after flooding in Newcastle.
The owner of a block of flats in North Yorkshire where two jockeys died in a fire has admitted not taking reasonable safety precautions.
Rubbish collectors left 70 bin bags to rot at a block of flats in Essex as "it was too dark for them to go inside".
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More than 40 million litres (8.7m gallons) of water has been pumped out of a Tyneside estate where flooding left a block of flats near collapse.
The Ministry of Sound in Elephant and Castle is trying to stop the building of a block of flats nearby because club bosses fear noise complaints could force the venue's closure.
In Newcastle, Exhibition Park was sealed off after it was flooded and the Newburn area of the city, which saw a block of flats demolished following floods in September, was hit again.
Macdonald, who has family in Great Yarmouth, had been jailed for life at Lewes Crown Court in July 1996 after he admitted arson at a block of flats in Eastbourne, East Sussex.
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Part of Commercial Road was later sealed off and a car was towed away by police from a nearby block of flats.
Some of the rock face is owned by the Downs Committee, another section by residents in a nearby block of flats and and the land below by another private owner.
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Work on a separate a five-storey block of flats on the site of a car park overlooking Horseshoe Common is also due to begin in the coming weeks.
Four elderly people were treated in hospital for the effects of smoke after being rescued from a six-storey block of flats.
The prince's visit also included a tour of Cambridge Court, a block of seven self-contained flats for adults with learning disabilities, where he unveiled a plaque to mark its official opening.
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At a huge block of opulent company flats opposite its headquarters, the car-park floors are scrubbed clean every day, and the gardens repeatedly landscaped.
"Every block of houses and flats links to another with a footpath, " he said.
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At its height the timber-framed block of flats on Gershwin Road, Basingstoke, was "in danger of total collapse", a fire service spokesman said.
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