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Labour calls for compensation for residents on the Brunel Estate
Westbourne Ward’s three Labour Councillors, David Boothroyd, Rupert D’Cruz and Papya Qureshi have joined Karen Buck MP to call for tenants and leaseholders on the Brunel Estate to be given financial compensation from City West Homes for the “absolutely filthy” state of their estate.
On a walkabout this weekend with Karen Buck MP, they say that virtually all the stair wells and most lobbies on the Brunel Estate are:
* absolutely filthy;
* covered in graffiti;
* graffiti includes ‘gang’ related messages and obscenities.
There are several shattered windows and a number of walls have holes gouged out of them.
Karen Buck MP said:
“It is absolutely obvious that no-one with any responsibility for managing the estate has walked through here in at least a year. No one with any authority could possibly see the state of the place and leave it in this condition, so I have to conclude that no checking is being done. People should not have to live like this.”
“I am simply not prepared to accept CWH’s apparent inability to keep the communal areas in a reasonable condition- or, at least, to ensure that places like the Warwick, Amberley and Brunel are maintained to the same standard as estates like Churchill Gardens.”
Councillor David Boothroyd said:
“Every time they walk through the Brunel Estate stairwells, council officers should ask themselves whether they would accept it outside their flat, or whether they would make sure it got repaired, cleaned, and repainted. The council must change its apparent attitude that vandalism is inevitable. Residents shouldn’t have to tolerate it and they should be given financial compensation for the Council’s failure to keep the estate clean. Why else do residents pay rent and leaseholders pay service charges?”
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