Leave a house empty and it falls into disrepair. Leave a prefab empty in South Tottenham and it falls into disrepair extremely quickly, is vandalised, is squatted, used as a public rubbish dump, costs public services large amounts of money putting out fires, turfing out squatters, securing once, twice, thrice the empty properties – and of course it doesn’t help the housing crisis.
The prefabs have been a major blight on this area for over four years. Two have been vacant for all that time – and more!
In July we were promised that they would be flattened in September ready for Sanctuary (the housing association responsible for the building of
Sadly, the pictures taken on a grey day really don’t do that side of the street justice. I’ll try and get some on a nice sunny day when the filth and shocking state of disrepair is really apparent.
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