A Northern Quarter apartment block is being ‘treated like a hostel after it ‘got a reputation’ within the homeless community as being an easy place to access, a resident says.
Ian Roberts says that, due to a door ‘degrading’ over time on the 125-127 Oldham Street apartment building, it’s become easy for non-residents to gain entry. That has led to a surge in rough sleeping inside the block.
Ian says he’s even discovered rough sleepers in water meter rooms and the basement, with one homeless man reportedly saying he was there to ‘charge his phone’. Riverside, the company which manages the block, said it is ‘aware’ of an issue with the door.
