She was ecstatic when 73 -year -old pensioner Pat Findle went to Lillington and Longumor Garden before the turn of Millennium.
Grade-II listed property in the 1970s PimlicoWith around 1,000 houses, A prize winning campus was, with “beautiful” cruelist architecture and a bizarre garden room at its center. The council was attentive; The community was almost.
But move forward rapidly in three decades, and Ms. Findle says she feels that she is “in war”.
In the last one year, the roofs have fallen, flat floods have been flooded, residents have been admitted to the hospital by scaling or “contaminated” water, and sewage pipes are torn, allowing the smell of stools through the property. Ms. Findle says that “every three months” is a new issue. His own flat is affected by Woodlis.
The families are vacated, and the residents are left deprived of sleep and are struggling to work after the failed attempts to fix leaks and frequent molds.
A recent independence notice requested that the property required 2,086 plumbing repair between January 2020 and March 2025. Since then the property has been named “Leki Lilington”.
Leaseholders, yet, have seen their maintenance bills touching the sky, as they see half the cost of the council decisions.
But the Westminster Council, she says, who owns and manages the property, is stubborn in front of the complaints of the residents. A leaseholder, who asked the council to be anonymous to be afraid of vengeance, placed it clearly: “The council sees us as an enemy.”
The council has dismissed these allegations, saying that they have “fully complaints process”, saying that they have “apologized for any stress”. Asked about the specific issue of leaks, he claimed that it is “needed to replace an aging communal hot water and heating system” because of “they were working towards finding” more efficient, reliable and durable options “.
Despite their acceptance of problems, the council scored the top points when the housing regulator inspected the property in February this year. This inspired at least 55 residents to co-integrate a letter, which disputes the result of the Labor Deputy Minister. Angela RenerHe accused the council and the regulator of “marking their own homework”. Three months later, Ms. Rener’s team’s response directed the residents to complain Westminster Council,
Now, Ms. Findle says she wants “she never went into that plot in the first place”.
“They do not give a toss and we behave like dirt,” she says. “I don’t need stress anymore. It’s grinding me.”
The only relief is a community of residents who have ralled around each other.
At the time when Ms. Findle lives in Lillington, social housing across the UK has become disorganized after chronic undervision and neglect, as the central government has shifted the burden of responsibility for these houses to less well -funded local councils.
When? Independent A property visited and talked to the residents of the houses on the premises, a theme was common: Lillington and Longumor Gardens are dangerous and are waiting for a disaster. The London Fire Brigade expressed concern about safety issues in Estate with Westminster Council last year.
Many inhabitants asked to be cited anonymously as they feared results from the council, even eviction. Ernest Stafford of Residents Association urged the council to assure the residents that they were allowed to worry about the property without fear of being evicted, but the council allegedly refused to intervene, inspired the allegations from the residents that the council “was quite happy to intimidate the people.
A resident, a mother of three, says that she is “extremely concerned” from the absence of a council for dangerous situations. He has spent repeatedly in his flat in his flat, struggling with the roofing and leaking. She says, “My life is sad that it can be worse.” “I have done all this.”
She describes an event in January in which the fuse box of an electrician contracted by an electrician contracted by the council was released on fire, refusing to check why many flats were having a nap. The blazing fuse box was discovered by an employee of the UK Power Network when the resident called him to help.
She says, “I think what could happen if they did not do so,” she says that her block is weak and full of elderly people. “This posed a real and serious threat to the safety of all in the building.”
Another resident in a separate house in Estate says that she was “suffering from a long -term sleep and stress” after the roof was badly leaked on her building, partly her flat was flooded. A poor repair meant that leaking remained for years. A previous leak in his flat took months to fix the council.
She says, “I never felt that the council has taken into account the impact of their poor repair processes on the day-to-day life and goodness of the residents.” “Generally, my issues had little urgency or sense of understanding, it was just another job number for them.”
Underlining what the residents have said are indifferent to the council, the cost is poor management and lack of accountability and transparency.
The role of the head of repair for the Westminster Council has changed four times in the last two years, which reduces efforts to measure issues with repair. Last year, an advertisement was given to the role of the head of repair, which lists salary up to £ 120,000, harassing the residents.
In another building, a leaseholder provided documents that doubled its maintenance cost to about £ 7,000 in a few years.
The payment of a bill included in those costs was paid by all leaseholders of that block to £ 8,300 to cover lifts insurance and maintenance. She said that she had not seen a single lift operator in the lift since she went inside.
“If the contractor says that she has to do something, the council just says yes,” she says. “There is no traceability of any kind.”
Pimlico North Conservative Councilor Ed Pit Ford says that the current Labor Council has been “wasting a large amount” since 2022 without monitoring.
“It seems that contractors are operating, contracts are not being managed and therefore wasting large amounts of money,” they say.
