SEPTEMBER
The Fold folds: Hundreds of tenants given six months to leave
Everybody out!: residents in The Fold, the tallest building in Queen’s Quarter, have been told to leave their homes
Another housing horror story in Croydon, this time a £100million residential block, privately owned but built on council land in Queen’s Gardens, where hundreds of tenants were told to find new accommodation by the end of March.
The decision on The Fold was reached after consultants conducted “extensive investigations” into continuing problems with mould, damp and leaks in the new-build.
Residents living in The Fold told Inside Croydon that among the “additional issues” are fire shutters that do not shut and fire doors which have gaps. The Fold is 32 storeys tall.
L&G, the insurance company which owns The Fold, admitted in October 2024 that significant remedial works needed to be undertaken to resolve the mould and damp issues. In a letter to residents, the managers now decided that the works can only be done with the building fully vacated.
Some tenants pay rents of up to £3,000 per month, yet many have been plagued with mould on their walls, damp and leaks. According to one tenant, what was intended to be a rooftop garden is now “nothing better than an open-air pond”, and is blamed for many of the issues with damp.
The Fold, together with three other blocks on the site of the former Croydon Council office building Taberner House, provide around 500 homes in total, including council tenants in Malcolm Wicks House.
Inside Croydon, which was the first to report the plight of residents in The Fold, has continued with coverage in the following weeks, and we will have more on this story in the coming few days.
Also in September…
More piffle from Perry:
Croydon transformed! Westfield open two kiosks in Allders
Westfield’s seven kiosks in the old Allders building were opened late, and there was to be only six, all leaving shoppers underwhelmed, again. But Mayor Jason Perry made sure he got his goodie bag.
Under Westfield, it looks like curtains for sad Whitgift Centre
We sent a handful of iC’s citizen journalists where no man, or woman, would dare to go – the interior of the Whitgift Centre – with the task of locating the office of the local MP. To be fair, they struggled…
Meanwhile, in better news:
Volunteers help to create new park at Coulsdon South Station
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