“The addition of fire marshals walking down the hallways every 15 minutes is intrusive and distressing.”
Block Management UK Ltd, managing agent for Cardinal Lofts where Alex’s flat is located, previously said it sympathised with leaseholders for having to pay for repairs and the fire marshals, known as a ‘waking watch’.
The owner applied to the Government s building safety fund, open to blocks with both Grenfell-style (ACM) and non-ACM cladding since March 2020.
But in the meantime, flat owners face a £300,000-a-year-bill.
The upper floors of Cardinal Lofts in Ipswich were found to have combustible material by fire experts last October