Coronavirus: homeless families moved into unsafe buildings. What good will THAT do?
Unsafe: these tower blocks on the Ledbury estate, Southwark, are in danger of fire or collapse – and the council has put 60 homeless families into empty flats there.
What’s the thinking behind this? If the disease doesn’t get them, the building might collapse on them instead?
Southwark Council (Labour-run, God help them) has moved homeless families into an estate of tower blocks that require major works to make them safe from fire or collapse.
The four towers on the Ledbury estate have many empty flats because they are unsafe.
They were built using the ‘large panel system’ construction method, which became notorious after the partial collapse of Ronan Point in Newham in the 1960s.
That’s more than 50 years ago! Why was nothing done about these buildings decades ago?
Families who were living in temporary accommodation with shared bathrooms and kitchens are being moved into 60 empty flats in the towers, to allow them to self-isolate during the coronavirus outbreak.
Southwark reckons it has agreed “extra safety measures” with the fire service in order to ensure the flats are safe to occupy.
What’s the last time we heard of a council making arrangements with a fire service about the safety of a tower block? Ah yes: Grenfell Tower.
What can possibly go wrong?
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