Residents thrown out of an unsafe tower block just days before Christmas have been given a weekend to collect their belongings.
Bracken House, on Charles Street, was evacuated on December 22 last year after a fire service report said ‘major work is required to the building, including replacing the external cladding and carrying out work inside the building’. That came after ‘years’ of issues, one insider told the MEN last summer.
Now, after being homeless for nearly three months, residents staying in hotels nearby, paid for by property managers, have been given two days notice that they will lose full access to the building - and have no idea when they’ll be able to get back in, if at all. Initially, residents were told they would have 12 days to organise the collection of the items they would need while the work was going on.
