Following the Residents Meeting on 27 June 2017 at 19:00 (location Avery Court, 46 Capitol Way, NW9 0AU), a number of concerns were flagged for our safety and convenience for the residents in Bree Court and Avery Court. Issues flagged included the below:
- Remedial works have been completed in sixth floor Bree Court raising a number of defects including a flaw in how the walls were built allowing smoke to travel freely throughout the block. Currently the ceilings have been removed and the walls knocked down and replaced with pink panels. This work and investigation took roughly four months and is yet to be started on the remaining floors on Bree and Avery Court.
-Invasive works are pending to be carried out in EVERY flat. No start date nor turn around time has been confirmed. We have been advised we will not be required to move out of the flats, nonetheless is an inconvenience to say the least. Network Homes have confirmed we are safe in the case of a fire however cannot confirm potential risks in individual flats until the invasive works are carried out.
-Network Homes confirmed they had a Final Certificate which is only received once all checks are carried out and signed off on various levels when a building is completed. These checks include complying with building regulations however strongly indicates an act of NEGLIGENCE as the walls and other defects now have to be addressed.
Due to the concern for our safety, the act of negligence and inconvenience we want Network Homes, as our Landlord to:
-Provide a firm timeline of a completed date for all works to be carried out to ensure any fire safety risks are remediated as soon as possible.
-Immediate waiver of rent and service charge we are currently paying, until ALL remedial building works are completed, including all work due to take place in our individual flats.
-Compensation for the inconvenience caused for all works carried out in communal areas and flats.
-Future compensation plan should these works carried out depreciate the value of the property under the fault of Network Homes given the negligence involved.
We are all seeking Legal advice individually and collectively and will seek Legal Action if Network Homes refuses our proposal.
Updates
July 8, 2017
Reaching this level of visibility feels heavy because it confirms so many of us are living in the same state of anxiety. I am exhausted by the lack of transparency from Network Homes but seeing this surge in interest keeps me moving forward.
Reached 100 supporters
July 8, 2017
56 Comments
No one has a clue at network homes, constant problems with sorting anything out with them. There responses are just standard auto responses with nothing actually being done on time. I agree with all points raised. How could we be allowed to purchase the property if it was not properly fire proofed, let everyone move in then a year later all of sudden realise?!
Several people signed off this building as safe knowing that was simply not true. We were given incorrect fire safety information for a whole year (stay in flat). This stems from the developers and is linked entirely to cost saving (and profit margin!) Network Homes as building managers, however, are quite simply incompetent on the most basic of levels and I have lost all faith in them.
In light of recent events we need to pull together and hold housing associations to account so thank you for organising this petiton. As many of you have rightly pointed out, we have invested life savings to buy here so to be continually fobbed off is unacceptable!
Needs to be sorted asap, we have not paid all this money to live in a nice building which is now considered unsafe and also looks a mess, due to corridors being hacked to pieces.
We don't want another Grenfell happening. The fact is that the work had been started more than 3 months and it is still ongoing? Either the defect is too huge to be remedied or the efficiency of the management company has a lot of rooms for improvement.
Anyone attend the meeting yesterday?
I am very shocked to hear that these issues are occurring, and have not been resolved before purchasing the property. In the case, I think something needs to be done, and I don’t want to leave my flat, and be elsewhere. Please sort the problem immediately without any changes to moving flats etc. Thank you
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Following the Residents Meeting on 27 June 2017 at 19:00 (location Avery Court, 46 Capitol Way, NW9 0AU), a number of concerns were flagged for our safety and convenience for the residents in Bree Court and Avery Court. Issues flagged included the below:
- Remedial works have been completed in sixth floor Bree Court raising a number of defects including a flaw in how the walls were built allowing smoke to travel freely throughout the block. Currently the ceilings have been removed and the walls knocked down and replaced with pink panels. This work and investigation took roughly four months and is yet to be started on the remaining floors on Bree and Avery Court.
-Invasive works are pending to be carried out in EVERY flat. No start date nor turn around time has been confirmed. We have been advised we will not be required to move out of the flats, nonetheless is an inconvenience to say the least. Network Homes have confirmed we are safe in the case of a fire however cannot confirm potential risks in individual flats until the invasive works are carried out.
-Network Homes confirmed they had a Final Certificate which is only received once all checks are carried out and signed off on various levels when a building is completed. These checks include complying with building regulations however strongly indicates an act of NEGLIGENCE as the walls and other defects now have to be addressed.
Due to the concern for our safety, the act of negligence and inconvenience we want Network Homes, as our Landlord to:
-Provide a firm timeline of a completed date for all works to be carried out to ensure any fire safety risks are remediated as soon as possible.
-Immediate waiver of rent and service charge we are currently paying, until ALL remedial building works are completed, including all work due to take place in our individual flats.
-Compensation for the inconvenience caused for all works carried out in communal areas and flats.
-Future compensation plan should these works carried out depreciate the value of the property under the fault of Network Homes given the negligence involved.
We are all seeking Legal advice individually and collectively and will seek Legal Action if Network Homes refuses our proposal.
Updates
July 8, 2017
Reaching this level of visibility feels heavy because it confirms so many of us are living in the same state of anxiety. I am exhausted by the lack of transparency from Network Homes but seeing this surge in interest keeps me moving forward.
Reached 100 supporters
July 8, 2017
56 Comments
Completed and tenanted since 2015 and still working out fire safety is not good enough. Tenants matter
No one has a clue at network homes, constant problems with sorting anything out with them. There responses are just standard auto responses with nothing actually being done on time. I agree with all points raised. How could we be allowed to purchase the property if it was not properly fire proofed, let everyone move in then a year later all of sudden realise?!
Several people signed off this building as safe knowing that was simply not true. We were given incorrect fire safety information for a whole year (stay in flat). This stems from the developers and is linked entirely to cost saving (and profit margin!) Network Homes as building managers, however, are quite simply incompetent on the most basic of levels and I have lost all faith in them.
In light of recent events we need to pull together and hold housing associations to account so thank you for organising this petiton. As many of you have rightly pointed out, we have invested life savings to buy here so to be continually fobbed off is unacceptable!
Needs to be sorted asap, we have not paid all this money to live in a nice building which is now considered unsafe and also looks a mess, due to corridors being hacked to pieces.
We don't want another Grenfell happening. The fact is that the work had been started more than 3 months and it is still ongoing? Either the defect is too huge to be remedied or the efficiency of the management company has a lot of rooms for improvement.
Anyone attend the meeting yesterday?
I am very shocked to hear that these issues are occurring, and have not been resolved before purchasing the property. In the case, I think something needs to be done, and I don’t want to leave my flat, and be elsewhere. Please sort the problem immediately without any changes to moving flats etc. Thank you
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Completed and tenanted since 2015 and still working out fire safety is not good enough. Tenants matter