黑洞社区

Emma Dent Coad, the recently-elected Labour MP for Kensington, has called on the Kensington & Chelsea council to completely re-think its approach to social housing in the wake of the Grenfell disaster.

, Dent Coad said the residents of Grenfell Tower had complained for years about potential fire safety hazards in their block but had been ignored.

Accusing the council of 鈥榮anitising poverty鈥�, she it had put in place a 鈥減unitive estate development schedule which I cannot imagine can be implemented. It has plans to chomp through our estates to 鈥榠mprove鈥� people鈥檚 lives. It will do nothing of the sort.

鈥淭he first post-war estate to be developed, Wornington Green, is very poorly designed and badly constructed; three-year-old buildings have seen ceilings leak and collapse, most recently a floor collapse, dodgy electrics and leaky plumbing,鈥� she wrote.

Before becoming the constituency鈥檚 MP in last week鈥檚 general election, Dent Coad was a local councillor and had campaigned for years about the borough鈥檚 housing problems.

In her piece in the Standard she went on: 鈥淩esidents on the Lancaster West Estate, where Grenfell Tower now stands like a skeleton, have been watching what happened at Wornington Green with dread, while the council continues to act as PR for estate agents and developers.鈥� 

People were angry, Dent Coad wrote. 鈥淚 don鈥檛 blame them. We need a complete reappraisal of council housing stock and a halt to the council鈥檚 development plans.鈥� 

Newspaper reports have highlighted that Dent Coad was on the borough鈥檚 housing scrutiny committee until May 2014.

黑洞社区 has contacted Kensington & Chelsea council for comment.