- the landlord Camden Council: housing management = housing/tenancy estate office, housing maintenance and repairs, annual safety gas checks, dealing with asb, complaints handling, etc etc
- the 2 tenants [A and C] - tenancy conditions, asb
- life in general living here
- the physical condition of the property - no sound insulation, water leaks
- tenant participation
- my general health and wel-being
but I'm finding it difficult to get my thoughts together enough to do a coherent post and stuff, so please bare with me if you can. thank you.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Kentish Town District Management Committee [KT-DMC]
Tues 29 Nov 2022, 6.30pm
PDF 353 KBVenue: Whittington Estate TRA Hall, Retcar Place N19 5TR
Contact: Rebecca Taylor Email: Rebecca.Taylor@camden.gov.uk
[from notes on Camden councils website this meeting is the first face to face since lock-down and Zoom meetings]
15 Dec 2022
Reading through the annual Complaints Handling report/s presented to the Cabinet committee HERE yesterday Wed 14 Dec 2022 - Agenda item 16 - Report of the Borough Solicitor [Andrew Maughan]
The period is 1 April 2021 - 31 March 2022.
I couldn't help notice the Compliments sections that have what i suppose are supposed to be comments made by satisfied residents/tenants such as
6.48 Housing Management - Compliments
"You really have all been amazing helping me with my case and I thank you all again" [my emphasis]
and " I can honestly say that I have NEVER come across a person within a local authority who shows
as much energy & determination to help tenants to improve their living conditions."
Ok I admit I did LOL at them only because some seem to me to be exaggerated, 'made up' even *GASP*
There isn't Complaint sections that gives such details as the Compliments sections - this to me is unbalanced reporting which seems to be the norm in officers reports in Camden Council, which I think should be changed to be more balanced and honest.
Sun 19 Feb 2023
Housing in London annual report – London Datastore Mayor of London/London Assembly Oct 2021
Feb/March 2023 Council and DMC meetings to do with Housing Management:
Housing Scrutiny Committee - Tuesday, 21st February, 2023 6.30 pm
Cabinet - Wednesday, 22nd February, 2023 7.00 pm
Tues 7 Mar 2023
Had meds - review by health centre in-house person, later to have blood pressure reading done - maybe at some point to contact the sleep center, but first to try a few things myself - good sleep had evaded me for years.
Thurs 16 Mar 2023
Had blood taken for testing.
Light headed trying to get up and W on feet once since BP - same before and after bloods.
3 years ago today I had a heart attack and was in hospital for 5 days/nights -
stent inserted into artery [ of left side outer heart muscel], where blockage was [ heart muscel death reduced EF to 41%]
27 March 2023
The municipal corporate 'w[hol]e' = deceitful, fractured - as i have experience of
13 April 2023
I want to do a legal will and testament - i don't have much in the way of property etc but some stuff I would like to at least go to a good cause/charity or such like.
I want to be able to take a pill: sort my affairs out, go to the location I want to 'leave' at [a coastal area where the scenery is to 'die for' so to speak] - how wonderful. Lay down and slip away into a coma to never wake up again - in this existence anyway.
After my death I want to be taken out to sea/a big lake or whatever and dropped/weighted down into the water - as i was born, without clothes. Lunch for the fishes. I think it sounds great.
No coffin, but if a box is needed to transport me then a wicker/ply board, Im not fussed.
'I'm coming home', i don't know when and how yet but I hope its not too far into the future.
Friday 28 April 2023
4 weeks after finding out that my brother Joe/y had died and I only know that he had died in Nov 2022.
People in authority [and others] who know aren't telling me even the basic of information other than 'nov 2022'. Its being drawn out and its frustrating and upsetting for me and not helping with the depression etc I have. As some might say the 'stressors' just keep being piled on it seems and again I feel that I want to scream - what makes it worse is that I have even less support around me than I did when I had the heart attack back in march 2020.
The above photo is mainly of the cuddly toy dog I bought for Joey - as a comfort aid sort of thing and took a photo as I know how some things can go missing in hospital. I took it when I and my other brother where still 'allowed' to get this close to him. Some of his face is in the shot. His skin was yellow, you can see that in the photo.
When he was moved from the ICU to another ward - I and other brother weren't allowed into the small room he had been put in. No real explanation had been forthcoming by nurse in charge. I had managed to actually see him in the small room though - from the corridor. That was the last time I saw him.
As a full blood sister [sibling] to Joey I seemed to [in practice] have no rights at all
to information that one of his son's had been given and who had been allowed to instruct the nurses who can and can't have assess to my brother.
Something just wasn't right here and I couldn't find out what it was and people in authority weren't interested in what I had to say, not the nurses, not adult social services.
How the fuck did this happen? bad luck, bad fate, what? by design? I still don't know much about my brothers death etc.
I am nobody, he was nobody [going on how some others treated us] and I don't believe he would have wanted things to have been like they had been, even us not being told about his death, his funeral etc. That was not in his best interest - surely?
I'm trying not to cry again and feel hurt and despair again, not hate.
Love you Mr 'Nobody' - Brother. x
Mon 1 May 2023
Perhaps, Perhaps, Perhaps
Tues 16 May 2023
unless you count the short times vacant tenant has been up here these last 2 weeks, nearly every day,[never over night] as living here then the flat is still not being lived in, certainly not as a main home.
Someone has been in and out of flat A 3 times in last hour, banging the doors and causing me annoyance. Someone also banged doors in A's kitchen area a few times and then main front door [on their way out i think].upsetting me again
Thurs 18 May 2023
Someone is in flat A as I can hear drilling below and kitchen metal gate and door is open. I turn on my radio to listen to classicfm radio to drown out the drilling noise as I find it annoying. There is interference with my radio signal, i think its nearby. Someone has slammed the front door of the building - i think coming in. Someone else in A now as I can hear talking below. I am in b/room and have window open a little as is usual.
I wonder if A is moving out: the shed at end of garden may have been cleared out - the door lock has been taken off and door closed over but can see that there is no lock on it and wheel barrow turned upside down and put against the door.
I still don't sleep very well. I have an appointment later on with woman GP referred me to.
I'm waiting for letter/word from Camden council as to the death records search I paid them via their website to do re my deceased brother, this was a couple of weeks ago. Radio interference again, ok now.
I hope letters don't go missing as its a communal area where the post is and I still remember the time a few years back when my post was tampered with. I did a post about it.
Sun 21 May 2023
Did I mention that Angela Spooner head of tenancy services is retiring, Sharon Calvey head of housing estate caretaking is leaving the council and Martin Pratt executive director of Supporting People directorate, is retiring. I'm not sure if their replacements or restructuring of things in various departments will mean improvements in service provision as some area's have been dire to say the least. A few from housing repairs should be getting the chop as well in my view.
Some folk have been wondering why no housing officers have been sacked for the failings of landlord duties in regards to 31 Daleham Gardens NW3 fire of Nov 2017 and the recent connected criminal prosecution and sentencing of Camden Council [as a legal person/whole] for serious fire safety breaches?
Thurs 31 May 2023
Flat C is still slamming/banging her flat door and/or main front door as she comes in and out - sometimes its one of the doors other times its both doors. I find it upsetting/distressing and believe she does it on purpose as she knows it annoys. My cat also gets spooked by the slamming door noise.
Someone has been in flat A a few times this last week - i could hear him speaking, banging about and slamming doors [annoying/distressing me] - someone stuck what looks like a dummy alarm on the outside of the main front door above the letter box [no actual box to catch the post which ends up on the floor -sometimes a pile up]
Its a key safe box with a combination lock.
It could be the 'master key' thing that was mentioned in a tenancy/housing report to do with council street properties.
4 June 2023
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Looks like the 2 boroughwide council tenant groups the Camden Association of Street Properties aka CASP and the Leaseholders Forum seem to have mentioned the 'master key' project - via the Leaseholders Forum [LF] meetings/minutes can be found on the councils website HERE
Since around Sept 2022 a CASP committee member has been giving the LF some updates on what the CASP committee have discussed at their monthly [mainly secret] meetings. Its a positive thing though that CASP has opened up a bit more. The casp website though isn't very informative about what CASP does, CASP website HERE
7 June 2023
C above me has been slamming the doors very loudly today 7x - causing me annoyance - i very much think she does it on purpose to cause me upset because she knows it causes me upset/harassment C could be in and out again through-out the evening slamming/banging the doors/. Sometimes its really nice to just have quiet and sometimes that is achivable around here but this evening the radio goes on to drown out the bangs/slams.
I can't seem to relax properly, and one of the reasons may be because I'm always anticipating the slamming of the doors or the banging about or something or the other to do with noise from upstairs, even at night. Though it is better than it used to be, the years have taken its toll and my tolerance is very low especially at night - when I heard the bangs/slams now especially at night it very much reminds me of how i felt when things where very bad and the mini breakdown I had.
8 June 2023
Removal team from housing voids in flat A making a racket stripping the place.
I was concerned about my post as its a communal hallway floor that the post drops onto and their tooing and frooing might accidentally pick up some post and who knows where it will end out. So i went to have a look as postman had also just been as I saw him outside - no post for me.
My cat Jack is spooked by all the noise bless him, as I am, have put radio on a bit louder than I normally would to try and drown out the annoying noise [sorry for any 'anti-social behaviour' this may come across as but needs must, you know].
I understand that at times works need to be done, - the landlord doesn't always let other tenants in the property know when these works are to be done, how long etc. A genuine oversight or just bad manners, who knows.
Don't ya just love the extra loud slamming of doors? [sarcasm]
wed 14 June 2023
Someone was in A this morning
I aggravated the top part of right arm y/d and the pain is awful. I can still use the arm is some ways but mostly I can't.
I was supposed to go for cardio-echo [ultra-sound] this morning but couldn't make it as I feel unwell and the pain in arm was still there though has eased a little. I let hospital know [abet at short notice, sorry] i wouldn't be attending.
The frame in my bed/room sash window rattles when the wind picks up as well as rattling when there is banging nearby, such as in building works.
The single window glass also lets in a lot of cold and noise, and I usually have to pad the window up someway to try and insulate the room as best I can.
The living room also has 2 large sash windows - the window cords in 1 doesn't work properly so window doesn't stay open without some sort of heavy stopper at bottom.
I strongly suspect there won't be any noise insulation works in flat A - because the landlord isn't interested in doing such works unless .....
4 July 2023
The lock on the main front door of the building I live in isnt working properly, I noticed this when I last ventured out to buy some provisions last friday - when i came back i put key in door and it kept turning and turning [which is doesn't usually do] and for a moment or so I felt massive panic/dread but then the door opened and I felt relief at that.
Flat C still keeps doing the annoying etc slamming/banging of front doors - sometimes she has woken me up doing so, other times she has startled me and my cat, and this leaves me feeling tense and never really being able to relax as im always waiting for the loud bang of the door. I hate living here.
People keep coming and going from flat A, slamming doors. The flat door looks faulty to me [doesn't look like its closed properly] so I recently pushed on the door with my hand to see if it opened but it didnt but did rattle/move a bit then sounded like the lock had gone back into place.
The toilet leak is ongoing and also the blockage to bath pipes that I tried to fix myself but didnt succeed. I can't bring myself to contact the landlords 'people'.
Existing isn't living.
11 July 2023
Person/s from the council where in flat A y/d making a racket for hours; mainly using a power tool to drill, the walls? no-stop for over an hour - no notice given to other tenants or indeed other residents nearby about the upcoming work. I know they started just after 9am and this sort of noise from building/construction is 'allowed' by law but they also usually have the windows or doors wide open as well. This was the case with flat A: back door wide open, as is the case with flat across the road who are also having works done.
I haven't been downstairs or out since the weekend[sat] and didnt notice any notes or suchlike about the upcoming noise.
This is so typical of 'my' landlord camden council - even some of their own tenants they treat with distain and they may wonder why some tenants at times can be a 'bit ackward' when it comes to complying with them when they want tenants to.
The drilling started again earlier but has for now stopped.
Im still waiting for an apology and an explanation over a few things to do with housing and how badly ive been treated by them. I haven't been able to continue with the formal complaint and I want to but 'they' don't help at all with such things even if you have disabilities/difficulties.
21 July 2023
Reportedly there is a interim Head of Repairs: a Darren Smith. Danny Waite has left the Council.
8 Aug 2023
Tenant in flat C is still doing the banging doors and door locks thing, which I still find annoying and think she does it to annoy me - she also does the shouting and banging about above my bedroom, like she did last night: come 11pm when she did the door lock slam again, I checked my door as i sometimes without realising forget to lock the door and she started shouting and banging about again.
Since sat/sun I have had a cold like virus - early aug is a bit early in the season for colds - the flu as well and in general that there is a few virus's about as usual that before covid19 many people didnt make too much off and even went into work and such before the symptoms stopped - i remember around here in late 2019 and going into 2 shops and till staff having colds and they shouldnt have been at the till spreading their germs, but they usually think they are past the contagious phase when they arent.
These days I will point this out to anyone who has cold etc symtoms and is working or whatever in public settings and spreading their germs. a virus is a virus. its deadly to some. seriously. don't spread a virus.
11 Aug 2023
Tenant in C is still doing the loud slamming of the doors -
'hurry up and fucking die'
'you should have been a stillbirth'
just some of the stuff she has shouted at/about said to try and hurt me - i think she speaks for a few in the council and elsewhere
LOL
hate eh,
They hate me they love me not, he loves me he hates me not, she loves me etc etc.
"I feel it in my fingers I feel in in my toes ....."
19 Aug 2023
Tenant in C has been out and in a few times today. what she has done is go out and slam both doors causing a nuisance etc to me - then next thing I know the doors slamming again : she sneaks back in so I don't hear and when she goes back out she slams flat and front door.
3x today.
29 Aug 2023
The noisy work in flat A continues today again with the power tool screwdriver - about 9.45am on and off. This makes for not being able to relax as anticipating when the noise will start again and until what time.
Found out there is only 1 bloke in flat A for the 3/4 days - 2/3 of them before.
I think its taking longer than it should do.
I wonder if the flat next door to where my brother lived, is still boarded up [had been so long before Aug 2022 ] and still was a few months ago - yet his flat has new tenant.
Fri 1 Sept 2023
The noise from works being done in flat below me continues - a mixture of powertool and hammer
Tues 5 sept 2023
The noise from flat A below me continues today as it did y/day -this morn is banging, hammering, drilling.
What I think should have happened before this prolonged noisy works started was the landlord at least letting tenants in the building/neighbours know about the upcoming works that would be ongoing for at least 2 weeks and that noise/intrusion/annoyance would be kept to a minimum.
An offer of living somewhere else [suitable] for the duration should have been made to me [I have a cat so somewhere suitable]
workers should have been instructed to not use the front garden area as a dumping ground for all or any of the stuff from flat A they where stripping out - especially the greenery area] 2 times I have had to ask that heavy stuff be moved from on top of plants. A skip should have been hired.
Its been 2 months on and off since works on flat A started.
Its supposed to be our/my home, other tenants home yet are treated like nobodies by not only some other tenants but by the landlord.
Another issue about living in this building is that of the post/mail isnt as secure as it should be. It just drops onto the floor in the communal area and with front doors left open and lots of people coming and going I for one would prefer my post to be secured in a postbox or something. The council flats across the road on the corner have such boxes.
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6 sept 2023
10.30am the very loud slamming/thumping again in flat A
he keeps coming out to the back garden and going back in and slamming the door, using the water [i can hear it in the drain out the back] then he bangs/thumps something that makes a racket [the boiler?]
He did this again and he came out into back garden again - I looked out my window at him and I saw that he had latex gloves on and had cleaning clothe in hand and he went over and dusted/cleaned one of the top flaps of the cubboard board that is on the ground.
I said hello, you keep slamming the doors, he says he doesn't and went back in ..... and slammed the door............ give me strength, deep breaths.
"The Court decided that generally landlords are entitled to carry out works, provided that they take all reasonable steps to minimise disturbance to the tenant. "
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Main front door lock has been changed but without needing new keys as well, so must be same lock but new [ or something]
7 Sept 2023
Someone/s is in flat A again: the kitchen door is open but I don't hear them - yet.
I am feeling anxious waiting to hear the thumping, or banging or drilling that I suspect will come. I spoke too soon: the drilling.
The metal frame that was part of the metal gate which is around the outside of kitchen door - is still there and the toilet overflow pipe that is above the outside kitchen door is still there.
The painting of internal walls lite green, and ceilings and laying of the cheap lino.
Why not paint all the walls white and then if the next tenant so wishes they can add colour.
And the lino, again, no choice for the new tenant of what colour - if at all.
I think the voids team may in this case be eager to tick boxes [green paint for walls, lino etc] whilst omitting others and not giving the next tenant the choice they would have if they where living there.
Fri 8 Sept 2023
Flat A: I think its 2 today - I could hear them chatting away under/near my bedroom window around 8.45am.
Mon 11 sept 2023
wireless Heat alarms installed in A and B not C yet.
electrical box in communal area tested etc [ think its finished now]
13 sept 2023
someone in A this morning - banging with hammer.
2/3 hours they been at it- to unstick windows that were painted but weren't left open a bit til they dried.
19 Sept 2023
Someone coming out of A slamming flat door very loudly x 2.
Living room walls have been repainted to white.
20 Sept 2023
After the blustery winds comes the rain as well, today.
Later will check the white painted wall in hallway near window to see if there is further yellow discolouration from water leakage.
Sash window in bedroom rattles with force of the wind, I can at times feel the cooler air come through the thin single paned window. Am wondering how long I can last until I turn the heating on - sometime in Oct I'm thinking.
Flat C door closed/noise and immediately afterwards the front door of properly is slammed x 2, coincidence?
Flat C door is closed/slam then bloke in back garden talking then goes in then out and slams flat A door.
24 Sept 2023
The 'toxic' paint odour eminating from flat A [ground floor] can be smelt from 1st floor. I can smell it when I come out of my flat, it is disgusting. The stairs and floors need cleaning as well, the dirt from works hasn't been cleaned up - this is a common issue with any works done, though some do try.
As noted, 8 June 2023 was when they first went into A to strip the place. over 3 months later they still going into A doing stuff like recent works drilling big air vent hole in outside wall into [flat A bathroom, i presume] the room has a window.
When it rains heavily the external wall where the hole was made gets soaked and water leaks into my flat hallway - the water coming through is visible and the white of the walls dis-colours to yellow.
Its the same area where in 2015 the overflow pipe from A was leaking [for unknown length of time] and soaked the external wall and part of wall in my hallway and bedroom. Though this was 'fixed' via work done on flat A C toilet overflow pipe, some plastering in mine and redecorating, nothing as far as I am aware who done to damp proof the external area's.
As far as I can see, this property is the only council one that has the below box.
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A house recently had works done but no box on front door, even though front door was painted as well as internal communal area.
4 separate dwellings property near me - no box on front door though the leaseholder had people in doing works to the place, which seem to have halted though not finished.
I think whoever the next tenant in A is will not be informed by landlord that there isn't any sound-proofing at all in the property and that the slamming of doors is an issue - unless they are deaf. ]
4 Oct 2023
Flat C has been in and out x3 today and closing her flat loud loudly and slamming front door. it upsets me and leaves me feeling anxious - she is doing it on purpose to annoy me I know she is.
4.14pm and I hear another slam of main front door [its her i think] and Ive put my radio on loud to try and drown out the noise from her flat door.
last night she went out after 11pm and then came back in not long after and both times I heard the annoying slam/closing of her flat door. later on the bang above my bedroom. I hate living here - the landlord allows her to do the door slamming I know they do despite it causing a deliberate nuisance. I've lost count of the number of times I've mentioned it to them.
5.20pm I can hear C's flat door above my radio, as well as the slamming of main front door. I'm trying hard not to 'lose it'.
5 Oct 2023
Ive put my radio on before C comes out of her flat and slams the doors, - oh but I can still hear the slams, like just now. I think she can hear the radio even if not loud and slams the doors harder. This is a continuing stress for me and despite me contacting the landlord via @camdencouncil [twitter] I don't get a reply, nothing - so I take that as them ignoring me [im in the naughty chair - i'm a bit too big and old for that? ]
6 Oct 2023
I sensed that C was coming out of her flat this morn and I thought ok, maybe she won't this time slam the doors. I didn't put my radio on.
She slammed both doors - again causing me annoyance.
sat 14 Oct 2023
I've blacked up 3/4 of my bedroom window using bin bags/ As the months go by and it gets colder I will put up old duvet covers etc to try and insulate the windowpanes from the cold and noise of the fireworks that we usually have this time of year.
I haven't turned on any heating yet, but I think its getting closer to me doing so, usually just to warm up the place. 1 or so hrs a day at most with radiators even on very cold days, but a few more hours with electric halogen heater that my cat likes to lay in front off [he has a big cushion as well] It heats up the whole of a small room like my bedroom but not the living room which is double the size. It doesn't cost much - as far as I am aware/ Hot water bottles at the ready.
The last 2 weekends tenant in C has been out on her back terrace which is directly above my bathroom and kitchen and part of my hallway. I can hear her noise and its annoying: banging about, scrapping, heavy footsteps sort of thing.
Unless Im expecting someone I don't answer or open the door when someone knocks on my flat door [how did they get main front door open? ] and doesn't announce themselves. Most if not all people don't announce themselves which annoys me and puzzles me - I do it as it makes sense to me to do so. Unless you are the old bill and don't get an answer and say 'its the police open the door or we kick it down' Scary stuff.
I shall have to put a note on the front of the door what with all and sundry in and out of the building doing works and half wanting to get into my flat, its just too much.
Mon 30 oct 2023
10am someone is in flat A: things in garden that werent there before - new tenant?
not long afterwards flat door C slams, later on flat A door and front door slam.
19 Dec 2023
Yesterday someone/s in flat A doing works. Noises and then door slamming. Today door slamming x 2.
Letters addressed to a named [new tenant?] lay unopened [piling up] on the communal hallway floor.
5 Jan 2024
flat A door let slam.
light in bedroom on since 19 dec. nobody living there.
another slam not so loud - later on it looked that the light has been turned off.
10 Jan 2024
Front door of flat A let slammed earlier, which is annoying.
Most of the pile up of letters to A of people who don't live there, have gone from floor of communal area.
Noises of works being done, from A.
11 Jan 2024
Flat door in A let slam 10am annoying. some noise from flat.
C has also started again with the slamming of doors - running down stairs. annoying.
flat A door slam again
18 Jan 2024
lots of coming and going and door slamming to do with flat A since around 10am this AM. someone also knocked on my flat door and then went off. I wasn't expecting anyone and no-one announced themselves so I didnt say or do anything.
14 Feb 2024
The house owners next door have started with some more works to their property - at back, where scaffolding has put up and a window taken out. This started last week , annoying to say the least as it literally outside my bedroom window and the noise is on and off from around 9am -2/3pm this week.
I also have been doing some DIY as best i can considering my back, etc and depleted energy level.
The week before next doors work I had been doing some drilling and banging - maybe 2 days in the week lunchtime for 2hrs tops, stopping and starting. Im trying to fix a wooden bed frame and its going slow and annoying backwards at times. I can't do these sorts of things as I used to be able to but I need to fix it so I can put mattress on it.
I have been playing music as well to drown out the noise next door, which is annoying the longer it goes on and okay its in the daytime but as usual the resident owners didnt let neighours know of the upcoming noisy works or that it will be so close to my bedroom window.
bad manners i think.
Ok i didnt let neighbours know of the drilling etc i was to do but ...yeah i know but don't it say in the bible or somewhere 'do onto others' etc etc .... or 'turn the other cheek' -
praise the glorious Sun i aint christian.
Oh yes tenant in C is still doing the slamming of the doors which still annoys me, which I guess she knows and thats why she does it.
20 Feb 2024
Seems to be the case they never need to get planning permission for anything they have done, be that internal or external [government relaxation of the rules i guess]
They pay around £1.5m for the house and its a mess and 'needs' all this work done to it including a huge outsized garden 'shed' that is way to big for the garden and fake lawn.
Though they did do well with the shed in their front garden they had built that has a plant roof - which I like.
I can't get over how much work they have been having on this house - it depresses me, its just noise, noise fcuking noise and dust, dirt and bad manners and the neighbours having to put up with this every year since they moved in 6 or so years ago. They moved in when the house was having noisy works done - later they brought their new born baby back to live there with all the noise/dirt etc. I can't get my head around these people.
29 Feb 2024
must be a leap year [29 instead of 28 days in the month of Feb] and it was April 2023 that my brother J died and not Nov 2022 I and other family members where lead to believe.
I didn't find out for sure until earlier this month.
Joey was still alive when we phoned son up april 2023 about what we heard about him having died in 2022. He wouldn't confirm or deny. When J did die, no-one let us know.
I'm not sure I can get over what has happened, its been horrendous.
Mon 4 March 2024
I met the daughter of new tenant from flat A [below me] the other day as I was coming in from doing some food shopping. She seems very nice and even carried my heavy shopping trolley up the stairs for me. Awful stairs way too narrow I said.
I met the daughter of new tenant from flat A [below me] the other day as I was coming in from doing some food shopping. She seems very nice and even carried my heavy shopping trolley up the stairs for me. Awful stairs way too narrow I said.
I told her about the lack of soundproofing and the trouble it caused and briefly mentioned problems with our landlord and some neighbours. Her dad is disabled that's how he got flat A. Lots of letters sent here for him - as well as some others who don't live here.
Someone is in flat A this AM, - just as flat C was downstairs after she had slammed her flat door. i was waiting for the front door to be slammed but didnt hear it only flat A door. didnt hear anyone speak, so maybe they missed each other. Thought I heard someone in the communal hallway doing something and at first though it was a council worker [with a key to flat A] then thought it was daughter so i went out to investigate as I thought maybe she/he was doing some cleaning of the floor [needs it] and I would thank her/him, but they went inside before i even got down the top stairs.
Man from council housing contractor was here the other day about the fire/smoke/carbon minoxide/dioxide alarms and possibly replacing the existing flat door that had works done on it a few years back, took some photo's made an appointment for this month for 2 appointments.
He said something about flat A and I said 'Really that's odd ........ '
Anyway a new fire door for flat door is to be fixed and something about connecting via an electrical light socket the alarms. I will try and find out how much that will cost me [what with the price of electric and gas having risen so much these last few years an me already cutting back on using both]
20 March 2024
The next door neighbours started with some more building works about a month ago at the rear and didn't even warn us about the works and its upsetting and annoying me a lot this week.
Ive been trying to recover from the onslaught on my senses - by neighbours both sides of me and camden council my landlord building works of last year. It was awful and now the building works has started again and Im feeling that I fcuking hate these people.
The noise is so intrusive and I have nowhere else to go to escape from it so I turn music on to try and drown the noise out but usually I can still here the noise- unless I turn the music up very loud, which I don't like doing and try not to. I am sensitive to noises[unwanted sounds] and the more they go on and become louder the more it gets to me and I have what I call mini 'breakdowns' where I become very distressed like im being attacked, my senses, my whole being. Sometimes it makes me cry in pain.
On top of this flat C above me started stomping about above me so heavily it sounded like the ceiling would cave in, I could also hear her shouting though didnt know what she was saying. This upset me as well.
11 April 2024
Nobody is living in flat A below me despite some having keys and letters coming to the property and even some new furniture. I heard it was still marked as void.
I wonder what the game is?
and so hot on the tail of the dishonest tenant who used to have the tenancy [though hadn't lived there for years] until not so long ago and who used to keep reporting a leak coming from my bathroom into her kitchen when it was only the case one time. Oh what a pushover the landlords people where - still are by the looks of it.
15 April 2024
next door is still at it with the bang, bang, banging literally next to my bedroom - with the window open. 2 months now this has been going on. the scaffolding is still up and I can see from the mess of the glass on the extension the previous owner had built, that it will be the next thing that has works done to it.
Ive put radio on to try and drown out the noise but i can still hear the banging even with my window closed.
flat C came in the other day, let off fire alarm just inside her flat door, then went back down stairs and slammed the front door very loudly 3 times. I dint know it was her at first and it alarmed me and I feared for my safety. I let landlord and police know about it - @camdencouncil just ignored me as usual, police though at least replied to me. She is still slamming the doors and as far as I am concerned she does it to cause me upset because she knows it causes me upset.
I know i am expected to put up with hearing some noise in and connected to this property but when someone is [i believe] making the noise to upset me, cause a nuisance then its a different matter. she went out earlier slammed both doors came back a hr later - i could hear her speaking outside my flat door, and she went back in flat.
I know i am expected to put up with hearing some noise in and connected to this property but when someone is [i believe] making the noise to upset me, cause a nuisance then its a different matter. she went out earlier slammed both doors came back a hr later - i could hear her speaking outside my flat door, and she went back in flat.
and next door having works done nearly every year that go on for months and they don't even let neighbours know - who are expected to put up with the noise, mess, dirt etc.
23 April 2024
Scaffolding has come down next door.
The remaining noise from the room next to mine still goes on, with window open. I think the works are being dragged out and today i'm finding it very annoying and distressing.
25 April 2024
someone has been in flat A this even slamming the flat doorx2 very loudly - whilst around the same time flat C has been hanging about near my flat door talking to herself, going in and out her flat. I can't help but feeling unnerved, intimidated even.
