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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Anna Tims

I’m 91 and have cancer but a London council let me live in a soaking, mouldy flat for a year

The damaged kitchen wall in the reader’s flat
The damaged kitchen wall in the reader’s flat. Photograph: Supplied

I am a 91-year-old leaseholder in a block of flats owned by Wandsworth council. I’m living with saturated walls, dripping water and falling plaster because the council has failed to address a leak that began elsewhere in the block a year ago.

When I first reported it, contractors made a large opening in my kitchen wall to inspect a service duct that contains plumbing for 10 flats. The hole has never been made good and is now crawling with insects.

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