Fire Safety Concerns
Following the tragic Grenfell Tower fire on 14th June. Southwark Council created a dedicated email address for residents in the borough who had fire safety concerns. They also held a public meeting on fire safety at the Old Kent Road Fire Station on Monday 26th June 2017. Southwark Council's Stephanie Cryan (Cabinet Member for Housing) and Gerri Scott (Strategic Director of Housing & Modernisation) attended, and I raised a question at that meeting about compartmentation of my
Southwark Council Building Surveyor Visit
On 6th June 2017, a Southwark Council Senior Building Surveyor, visited my home. I had reported concerns to Southwark Council that gaps and cracks affecting my 12th floor flat on the Ledbury Estate were widening in the hot weather. There were vertical gaps in the corners of my bedrooms where the two walls meet, as well as horizontal gaps where the floor meets the wall and the wall meets the ceiling. They had always been there, but I had never seen them become so wide. I could
