Residents鈥 complaints were regularly ignored by officials, says Emma Dent Coad
Emma Dent Coad, the recently-elected Labour MP for Kensington, has called on the Kensington & Chelsea council to completely re-think its approach to social housing in the wake of the Grenfell disaster.
, Dent Coad said the residents of Grenfell Tower had complained for years about potential fire safety hazards in their block but had been ignored.
Accusing the council of 鈥榮anitising poverty鈥, she it had put in place a 鈥減unitive estate development schedule which I cannot imagine can be implemented. It has plans to chomp through our estates to 鈥榠mprove鈥 people鈥檚 lives. It will do nothing of the sort.
鈥淭he first post-war estate to be developed, Wornington Green, is very poorly designed and badly constructed; three-year-old buildings have seen ceilings leak and collapse, most recently a floor collapse, dodgy electrics and leaky plumbing,鈥 she wrote.
Before becoming the constituency鈥檚 MP in last week鈥檚 general election, Dent Coad was a local councillor and had campaigned for years about the borough鈥檚 housing problems.
In her piece in the Standard she went on: 鈥淩esidents on the Lancaster West Estate, where Grenfell Tower now stands like a skeleton, have been watching what happened at Wornington Green with dread, while the council continues to act as PR for estate agents and developers.鈥
People were angry, Dent Coad wrote. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 blame them. We need a complete reappraisal of council housing stock and a halt to the council鈥檚 development plans.鈥
好色先生TVpaper reports have highlighted that Dent Coad was on the borough鈥檚 housing scrutiny committee until May 2014.
好色先生TV has contacted Kensington & Chelsea council for comment.
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