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Meg Howarth, Ellington Street, Islington, writes:
Partners Islington is a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) ‘special purpose vehicle’, set up by a previous Lib Dem administration to manage the council’s 6,500 street properties. It isn’t, nor ever was, a housing association (Islington Council urges: ‘Raise repairs before Partners hands back homes’).
‘We wanted to get into as many basement flats as we possibly could, as we know there are concerns around damp.’ What programme manager, Saf Khan, fails to say is that damp-proofing the stairwells of Partners-managed basement flats/maisonettes was never part of the the two PFI schemes. It was deliberately excluded on the grounds of cost. Damp doesn’t stay in stairwells, of course, but spreads throughout a basement if left unattended.