Given its Xmas and my team won today, I’m offering free help with service charge or major works bills. Need it challenged, screenshot it my way. I’ll try and save a few pennies for people especially if they come from any large landlords (Clarion, L&Q, Hyde etc). RICS standard.
Commissioner Andy Roe has provided an update on the fire in #Dagenham.
He said: "To allow us to focus our resources on the incident, we have declared a major incident.
"A significant search and rescue operation is underway"
Read more: https://t.co/gMyTp2ZinV
In Dagenham today where more than 100 people were evacuated after a tower block fire - that took more than 200 firefighters to put out.
Residents we spoke to told us fire alarms didn't go off.
Concerns had already been raised about the building's allegedly "non-compliant" cladding - more than 7yrs after #Grenfell @itvnews
Dagenham flats fire shows urgent safety action is needed
The fire safety risks of cladding-removal may have been underestimated
⬇️ Analysis by @Victoria_Spratt https://t.co/hTxogpOrbv
'It felt like I was going to die then and there'.
A young mother who tried to flee a raging fire at her block of flats has told Sky News the fire alarms failed to go off and that an escape route gate was padlocked.
https://t.co/5H3nQjhMbN
Woke up to images of the fire in Dagenham all over X. Glad to hear it was brought under control by the emergency services and people evacuated.
7 years on from Grenfell yet residential buildings still remain unsafe and wrapped in ‘non compliant’ cladding … really is shameful and negligent.
Ripped off by Service Charges - How can I get justice?
Simple answer - "With great difficulty" ‼️
FTT is not fit for purpose, expensive, scary and off putting. The system is stacked against us #LeaseholdScandal@EdMagnus5@LEASEonline@thisismoney
https://t.co/sPo6aYTIjV
Due to #HeatNetwork inefficiencies @lambeth_council are charging residents ridiculous amounts. When tenants can't afford to pay they're being served a 'Notice of Seeking Possession'. Lambeth are threatening to make us homeless through no fault of our own. #LambethInTheHotSeat
My @guardian story: Some social housing providers "have lost sight" of the tenant says regulator, after UK's biggest landlord fined over four-year failure to fix boarded up window led to health problems https://t.co/pg9htlEkNK
Have you noticed how housing association surpluses are falling and the reason given is increased repairs and maintenance? Does that mean that repairs were not carried out in the past and surpluses were artificially inflated? @insidehousing@CIHhousing@natfednews@Kwajotweneboa
Congratulations and well done Ben for refusing to be cowed by GreenSquareAccord's shameful bullying!
@AngelaRayner - we need to talk about housing associations.
Over £60,000 has been raised for a carer who finished a 12hr shift to find his car had been flipped & burned during riots in Middlesborough on Sunday. Brendan Nwabichie, 33, said he had been saving for 12 months to buy the vehicle https://t.co/wWTAa9iq86
Those seeking to divide our communities will never win.
Mayors across the country are bringing people together in unity to condemn hatred, violence and vandalism.
My understanding is that we have been charged £8k for scaffolding that should have cost no more then £2k. We are asking for quotes. The MA has admitted that a surveyor has not been used.
Another example of the abuse of #leaseholder funds with zero accountability
"To anyone thinking about joining future violent actions - you will be captured on camera, you will be arrested and you will end up in prison."
Commissioner Sir Mark Rowley's warning to those intent on committing further disorder on the streets of London.
Hanging out with myself in the @saatchi_gallery as part of the @HomewardsUK ‘Homelessness: Reframed’ exhibition alongside extraordinary artists and individuals who have had direct experience being homeless.