Scrutiny 14-18

14 Lift 1 has repeatedly stopped on floor seven over the past months, cancelling the call button light but not opening the doors. It then either moves on or goes out of service. Each time this is reported to the caretaker who says it will be taken up with the lift company but there’s nothing else he can do. There has never been any feedback of what the fault has been or the remedial action taken - another example of the management of the building not professionally monitoring work done or reporting back.

15 One of the lifts has a faulty emergency call system. This has been repeatedly reported to the managing agent over the years but without any resolution or feedback.

16 The black granite/marble surrounding the ground floor lift doors has broken panels and lintel - none of which need be load bearing and could be readily restored - presumably the lintel stone was saved to enable this.

17 The previous fire on the 16th floor which totally gutted the D flat is evidence that there is negligible risk of fire spreading from one flat to another above, below or beside it. Fire risk assessments seem to be carried out by people who, whatever their qualifications or experience, seem unable to professionally determine true risk levels.

18 There appears to be a trend by MetProp to improve or gentrify the building at the lessees expense. It is suspected that most lessees wish to minimise costs and are content to only pay for essential maintenance. As long as things function reasonably, they do not need to be updated to later standards or to be made “as new”. Improvement or making new should be a head leaseholder responsibility in any case.