Cladding, mould, £75,000 charges – welcome to life in a British leasehold flat Residents of a blighted London block have been trapped in their homes by a swirl of events, as government attempts to reform the law drag on.
The contractor walked off site after removing the cladding, owed £700,000 by the block’s freeholder, Old House Group.
They now face a winter with no cladding, trapped in flats they cannot find buyers for, while the block’s freeholder fell into administration in June.
The seven-storey block in Colindale, north London, is cloaked in blue netting and scaffolding that shroud its rooms in shadow in the middle of the day.
For many of the residents of Mar House, the past year has been spent in perpetual twilight.
