Bathroom blues
Published: 17 September, 2010
• HOMES for Islington – the council’s housing agency – has denied me a decent new bathroom during the recent redevelopment of Centurion Close estate, off Caledonian Road.
All my immediate neighbours appear to have had new bathrooms, including two who have only recently moved in. I’ve lived here for 10 years.
Instead of providing me with a new bathroom, they decided instead to repair the current one in May. In doing so they broke my bath and sink and blocked my toilet pan with plaster. They then plastered over defective plaster on a damp wall in my bedroom. I’m an asthmatic with heart trouble and all this work made me ill.
Just when I thought nothing else could happen, I was flooded out by contractors working in the flat above. Water ruined my wooden floor and decorations. No compensation or even apology was offered.
Don Jackson
Centurion Close, N7
Comments
Why is it that the council
Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 2010-09-17 23:24.Why is it that the council will not do a repair to your home unless you contact an MP or serve them with court action. Now correct me if I am wrong, but are we not paying the council rent towards the maintenance and the up keep of their buildings. So if they constantly refuse responsibility and make dumb ass excuses for not repairing it, even if it is a health and safety issue then everyone should hold on to the rent and ignore them and tell blatant lies and excuse the same as they do to us.
Most off all, ask them to do a house swap with us for a week and let them tell us if our uninhabitable conditions are still ok. I wonder where all the rent is going because it is certainly not going on repairs, does a big bonus ring any bells.
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