Oxfordshire team to create Grenfell Tower fire memorial

London and Oxfordshire-based Freehaus has said that it is “a responsibility that we do not take lightly”, describing itself as a firm which works “with empathy”.

It was chosen from a shortlist of five and will work with bereaved and survivor families as well as the local community to produce a final design which is expected to be announced in mid-2027.

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The Grenfell Tower Memorial Commission has been consulting on plans for a permanent memorial in the area of the tower, with previously reported recommendations including a “sacred space”, designed to be a “peaceful place for remembering and reflecting”.

The commission’s community representatives, said they feel “confident that the right team has been selected to walk this road with us”.

In addition, they said that they are now “significantly closer to creating a bold, fitting and lasting memorial to our 72 loved ones, and to our Grenfell community, whose lives were forever changed by the devastating tragedy” in June 2017.

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The directors of Freehaus, Jonathan Hagos and Tom Bell, said they were “honoured to have been chosen” and will be “working closely with the bereaved, survivors, and the rest of the Grenfell community, to design a fitting memorial for the many lives so tragically lost”.

They added: “As we take our first steps in this journey, we want to acknowledge the eight years of advocacy and purposeful action led by the Grenfell community that has brought us here.”

Separately, the process to demolish Grenfell tower began in September, with the floor-by-floor deconstruction expected to take two years.