By Ben Lynch, reporter for local democracy
A mother who lives in a Housing block By Shepherd’s Bush Westfield has spoken or his terror after an elevator in which he was fell two floors and the initial doors refused to open.
Eve, who did not want surgery, said she thought she was going to “go to that” when the elevator fell, and that he has let him feel fearful to use it in the future.
She said: “I’m afraid for myself and I fear for my children, and my other family members when they visit me and have to enter those elevators.”
David Lewis, Executive Director of the Property Services Group in L & Q, which manages the buildingHe said they will continue to monitor the situation ‘To make sure the elevator works correctly.’
Newall Court, part of the Westfield development project, was built six years ago and since then has been plagued by problems that include floodAntisocial behavior and malfunction elevators.
Eve said: “People who defecate in the hallway, on the stairs, people who have sex on the stairs, people who take drugs.
“We have had homeless people in the squatting in the building.”
Lewis said that L & Q was working with lifting contractors to fix communal elevators, and that an engineer had been on the site for progress repairs. Since then, Eve said that while the broken elevator was repaired, it was wrong to work again.
In the second week of March, she was the elevator when she suddenly fell two floors. Then, the doors refused to open before the elevator began to work again and touch it to their floor.
She said: “I was terrified, I thought I was going to that.
“This building is really insecure, and I really believe that L & Q is not going to take appropriate measures until something really happens to someone or more than one person.”
Expanding his lack of confidence in L & Q, Eve said: “I have no faith in them. I don’t think they will do anything that is substance. I think what they will do, what they will continue doing is small.
Another resident of Newall Court, Mandy Goggin, 34, said he is also waiting for L&B works. An improvement notice issued to the block owner, White City Investments, by the Local Council, Hammersmith and Fulham, had instructed the repairs that began at home before April 1, fixing damage caused by a burst of burst.
This has not yet happened, with Mrs. Goggin and her four children who continue to live in a house that suffers from mold and water damage. The stipulated notice should be completed before April 15.
Mrs. Goggin said: “It is I who lives here with my children who, is affecting their health, is affecting my health. Now it is too much.
“I have left my leg here for nine months. I could have grown up to a whole child in the time that I have to do anything.”
In response to the concerns raised by Eve and Mrs. Goggin, Lewis apologized for problems with the elevator.
He said: “The safety and well -being of residents are our top priority, and I want to tear those who live in Newall Court that the elevator has two safe devices to prevent it from falling. The elevator is also attended and monthly basic, and has stent, and Hasalt of and has a stent and has a Saw stent and ha. What was carried out in the end of Last Mond.
“We also regret the unacceptable delay of repairs in the house of Mrs. Goggin. A work program required has now agreed to the leg, and Mrs. Goggin will be contacted in the next few days to discuss a start date for the repairs that will be carried out.”
In the photo: Eva in Newall Court, Shepherd’s Bush (Image: Facundo Arrizabalaga)
