Eldlerly and disabled residents were “trapped” in their apartment block, unable to go out for groceries or fresh air for days after the lift broke down.
One of the lifts inside a Humphries Court tower block in Collyhurst, Manchester, broke down last Thursday morning, prompting a string of complaints from the block’s residents.
The tower has two lifts, one serving even-numbered floors, another serving odd-numbered floors. This meant residents on the floors affected by the lift outage were left “having to negotiate heavy doors and slippy stairs”, frustrated tenants told the Manchester Evening News.
