Southwark Heating Scandal

Expose the irredeemably failing district heating network in the London Borough of Southwark

[Matt Forney @mattforney]

Women like this at do-nothing email jobs will be the first to become unemployable under the tariff regime and I couldn't be happier

[max tempers @maxtempers]

Doctors on the front line of Benefits Britain are utterly demoralised.

[Southwark Heating Scandal @ScandalHeating]

@Dan4Barnet You have been in office for 3 months, yet there is no new tube being constructed in one of the biggest city in the world. We have to see it to believe it.

[Cllr Rachel Bentley 🔶 @RachelBentleyNB]

Yet another scandal.

It’s not just leaseholders, it affects tenants too.

Individual queries are addressed after much persistence but the system is broken.

Resignations should follow. We’re not holding our breath though…

[Southwark News @Southwark_News]

#Southwark Council will publish itemised #servicecharge breakdowns to give leaseholders ‘more transparency’

Currently #leaseholders have to request that information which can take at least 28 days

https://t.co/cTQyXiQaz7

[Fiona Harvey @fionaharvey]

Is it just me or is this not the abolition of leasehold at all? All very well for new flats from now on, but that’s a tiny proportion of homes. What about the millions of existing leasehold properties? Govt admits there will still be “residual” leasehold. https://t.co/8H8xY97mlh

[Matt Lismore @MattLismore]

I now pay @lbbdcouncil £11,000 per year.

Broken down monthly.

Council tax: £186
Service charge: £550
B&D energy (council company) £220

My mortgage is only £896, meaning the council costs me more than my home, every month.

Tell me again the affordable housing program is working @BeFirstLondon

[SHAPE Coalition (Southwark)💚 @ShapeCoalition1]

Southwark 'affordable housing'! Annual services charges doubled to £8000 a year and 'poor doors'!

Affordable housing folks also paying for facilities used by better-off private residents!

Make it make sense!
https://t.co/ostkEIXOi2

[Southwark News @Southwark_News]

Exclusive: Fears that Canada Water Masterplan could have ‘less than 10 per cent #affordable #housing’

The £4 billion #regeneration of the area includes a new town centre, with more than 3,000 homes

#CanadaWater #Rotherhithe #SE16
https://t.co/CjGLvL8CiZ

[Sam Whyte @samwhyte]

It would be really great if a journalist could go in hard on District Heat networks not being subject to the energy cap, regulated by OFGEM or even by the energy ombudsman. Coz, lads, this is insane.

[Lambeth Tenants' Heat Campaign @Fight4Heat_LBL]

That's insane. That's a straight £565 before you've even used anything! These district #HeatNetworks desperately need to be regulated.

[Matt Lismore @MattLismore]

My energy and heating bill now exceeds £200 per month.

It’s a well insulted 2 bed flat, 5 years old, but my bill is around 100% higher than the average 2 bed flat in the UK.

This is because I have no consumer choice, compelled to use a district heat network for heating my home.

District heat networks must be brought under the OFGEM price cap, or be banned.

[Southwark Heating Scandal @ScandalHeating]

Time and time again, we are utterly appalled by the cruelty of @lb_southwark. They don’t even pretend to care about the lives and livelihoods of the residents who pay their salaries. The case for negotiation is becoming increasingly weak, while active lawsuits grow stronger.

[The Log Lady @gamecounsel]

This is appalling! @sezking78 @Jasmine_Ali @Miatsf The whole estate without heating or hot water!

[Jason Cobine @jasoncobine]

Property Managing Agent hidden commission, over £1.6m, was not for services rendered. This is the tip of the iceberg because these firms, even members of #RICS, habitually rip off those paying for the cover. https://t.co/wwRcT34wa0

[Philip Oldfield @SustainableTall]

It’s over 1,000km from Berlin to Paris

There’s now a direct daytime train between them, that takes 8 hours and costs just €59. Leave at 10am, arrive 6pm.

And… it’s just 1% the carbon emissions of the equivalent flight

https://t.co/F5V511bxrR

[DemolitionWatchLdn💙 @DemolitionsLdn]

@paullewismoney Pity all those under feudal #DistrictHeating systems (mainly council estates) where some clauses in the new #HeatNetwork regs will omit Council estates because they are apparently already protected 🧐 ask those who know that not to be true @Fight4Heat_LBL @ScandalHeating

[Palmer Luckey @PalmerLuckey]

Mdest proposal: All Luigi fans and stans should band together and create or purchase their own health insurance provider.

If the problem is really United Healthcare, they can save countless lives. If the 2% profit UH makes is really so obscene, surely all Americans will be thrilled to switch to a new more-efficient provider that doesn't deny any claims! I haven't figured out how that will work given that the the ACA/Obamacare specifically prohibits charging enough to make such a thing possible, but that is just a minor detail. It isn't like the supply side could be the problem, and certainly not government regulation and crony credentialism.

No, surely a new CEO can solve our health insurance woes and make a better product that everyone prefers by acting as a conduit for the brilliant ideas of murderous social media commenters.

[Jack Simpson 💚 @JSimpsonjourno]

Out of all of the blocks I have reported on as a journalist, the experiences of leaseholders at Mar House have to be up there as the worst.

Here's my investigation of the residents whose homeowning dream, soon turned into a leasehold nightmare https://t.co/KesdaeIqyF