The lady says no – and she’s not for turning…
Imagine how Amanda Blanc, appointed Aviva’s Chief Executive in July this year, would feel if she woke up to find that her insurer had refused to insure her home, and that [...]
Fire Risk Assessment
Part 3: Leaked Spreadsheet Shows Many Outstanding Fire Works Cannot Have Been Completed
This is a guest post written by East Kent Housing staff and Council Officers from all four councils who own EKH We have provided a spreadsheet of all the outstanding actions [...]
Part 2: The cover up has already begun with the Fire Compliance and Fire Risk Assessments at EKH
This is a guest post written by East Kent Housing staff and Council Officers from all four councils who own EKH In May 2018, Dame Judith Hackitt presented her report [...]
Part 1: Leaked Fire Safety Report Shows EKH Tenants & Leaseholders Lives Are At Significant Risk
The number of outstanding actions arising from Fire Risk Assessments which need remedial action to be compliant with current legislation across East Kent Housing managed [...]
Council to pay £47,500 to replace all non-fire compliant doors in Ross House
After two years and two months Folkestone & Hythe District Council have begun replacing all the non-fire compliant doors in Ross House, which houses 43 residents in [...]
Consultation hardly a resounding success
Not one of the four Councils of East Kent, Canterbury, Dover, Folkestone & Hythe, and Thanet received more than seventeen percent support from tenants and leaseholders [...]
Council’s Fire Insurance under Scrutiny and Leaseholders Ignored.
Exclusive Zurich Municipal (ZM) provides insurance cover for Folkestone & Hythe District Council’s housing stock. It would appear the Council failed to inform ZM [...]
Ross House: Five Fire Risk Assessments And Still Significant Issues Remain
Ross House, Ross Way, Folkestone is home to 43 people. Since Folkestone & Hythe District Council began housing people there in April 2018, five fire risk assessments have [...]
Ross House: A Tissue of Lies
Pursuant to section 1 of the Defective Premises Act 1972 and the Homes (Fitness for Human Habitation) Act 2018, Ross House was not fire compliant when Folkestone & Hythe [...]
A tragedy waiting to happen
When land becomes more important than thousands of people’s safety then something is wrong, horribly wrong. On the 6th June 2019 Cllr Tim Prater (pictured below) and [...]