Just 12 households displaced by the Grenfell Tower fire have moved into homes, it has been revealed.

The Grenfell Response Team said only a dozen households had moved out of emergency accommodation, six weeks after the disaster.

The team said that 45 offers had been accepted out of 174 initial offers for temporary or permanent accommodation.

Grenfell Tower

The news comes as families living in or near the burnt out high rise will have some goods and belongings returned to them.

From this week, residents from 33 flats in the tower and 22 flats in Grenfell Walk which were least affected by the fire will be able to ask specialist teams to recover their personal possessions safely.

Grenfell Tower site manager Michael Lockwood revealed last week that some Grenfell Tower flats had been left “completely untouched” by the fire, and that he hoped belongings could be returned.

He also revealed work coating the scorched remains of Grenfell Tower in a protective wrap to help forensic investigations and ease the eventual deconstruction of the building would begin in mid-August, and that the expected demolition of the building itself would take place “towards the end of 2018”.

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