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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Jessica Murray Social affairs correspondent

‘We’re living in darkness’: six years of scaffolding, still no post-Grenfell cladding

Natasha Dyett stood on her balcony next to a load of scaffolding
Natasha Dyett says barely any natural light gets into her home in Archway Heights because of the scaffolding. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

It’s a sunny day with bright blue skies in north London, but you wouldn’t know that in Natasha Dyett’s flat. Most of the rooms are consumed in shadow, while her teenage son’s bedroom is almost completely dark, apart from a few slits of light coming through the window.

She lives in Archway Heights, a nine-storey block of flats that has been covered in scaffolding for more than six years for cladding works that still haven’t started.

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