Pensioner Flats It is said for more than 55 that she was left “stuck” and “isolated” after the building. Raise Was broken for nine weeks.
Myra Hunter, aged 73, said that many of her companions Residents In the stronghold court Pleimet They are in the 80s and 90s and were unable to use the stairs Raise Broke in February.
Describing the lift as a “important part of the block”, Ms. Hunter – who lives on the fourth floor – told the BBC that it was “not acceptable” that it had broken for so long.
The sanctuary housing, which drives a block of 38 flats, apologized for disintegration in a statement, and convicted the delay in fixing the lift on the difficulties that sorted the essential expert parts.
The lift was fixed on 23 April, a spokesperson of the sanctuary said, a housing association provides Accommodation And care of a quarter of about one lakh people England And Scotland, according to his website.
Describing the situation worse than the Kovid lockdown in recent months, Ms. Hunter said: “To live because you can’t go down the stairs from your apartment, it’s not really good.”
Warning that one of his neighbors was left unable to meet his wife, who lives in care, Ms. Hunter said: “When you come here at the age of 55, you don’t guess to be disabled. But, as the age holds with you, you need that lift.”
Ms. Hunter said that she and her seven -year -old granddaughter also got stuck in the lift for about 10 minutes in February, as it was broken before a manager in the building, which was built in 1987.
The resident told the BBC that she was nervous about using the lift due to “continuous anxiety” that it could break.
A spokesperson of the sanctuary said: “The lift in the Citadel Court was restored on Wednesday 23 April.
“Availability of essential expert parts meant that it took more time to complete it. Repair And we regret this disintegration and discomfort Residents,
