Crown Heights, Basingstoke
Photos taken 12/02/2021. Photo: Sarah Gaunt. Leaseholders at a block of flats in Basingstoke will not have to pay out any extra for costly fire patrols, it has been confirmed to the Gazette. The management company of Crown Heights, on Alencon Link, has confirmed that leaseholders will not be asked to pay any more for the waking watch, which is believed to have run into six figures. Residents had been facing a bill for thousands of pounds for the patrols, brought in after the building failed fire safety checks last year. But now it has been confirmed that the cost was covered by a fund set up by FirstPort and raised by leaseholders service charges.
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Crown Heights, Basingstoke.Photos taken 12/02/2021. Work to install a new fire alarm system at a block of flats that failed fire safety checks last year has been completed. A new fire alarm has been installed at Crown Heights, on Alencon Link, which means a costly 24/7 fire patrol can be removed. The patrol, known as a waking watch, costs thousands of pounds and it is currently unknown whether leaseholders will have to pick up its cost. The new alarm features detectors and sounders in each of the 288 flats across the four blocks, meaning that the fire service was content to remove the waking watch.
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Cladding replacement work has begun on St Francis Tower in Ipswich. Picture: Sarah Lucy Brown
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Work is underway to replace flammable cladding at one of Ipswich’s tallest residential blocks – three years after problems were first uncovered.
Scaffolding went up at the 52m-high St Francis Tower, in Franciscan Way, in March and now contractors are on site to remove the remaining cladding material – a high pressure laminate (HPL), different to that on Grenfell –which had been covering around 45% of the building.
The current owners of the block first discovered a fire safety issue in summer 2018 when, following the Grenfell disaster, they commissioned an independent test and found its HPL cladding posed a risk.