A month later, an asbestos test I’d commissioned came back positive, and it was feared that the dehumidifiers, blowing into the affected panel, may have spread asbestos dust across the flat.
The leak was in communal ducts where the landlord, ie the council, must manage asbestos risk in accordance with the Control of Asbestos Regulations 2012.
A pipe in a communal waste stack burst into my leasehold flat, but it took a month for the council to address it, forcing us to move out.
Southwark admits, without apology, that its team had disturbed asbestos when tackling the damaged panel without prior testing.
When its team finally attended, it drilled through an asbestos insulation panel without testing first for asbestos.
