‘We didn’t want a new roof and now we are all expected to pay £22K for a roof we never wanted.’

Mawney Close residents furious at Council bill of £22,000 for new roofs they never wanted.

For the past year the Havering Daily has been covering the plight of residents living on Mawney Close in Romford. The small cul-de-sac has seen many repair works over the last two years including the placement of new roofs that residents never asked for or indeed wanted. The works have been one nightmare after another for locals living there that have had to put up with extremely shoddy work, tiles falling off the roof, builders entering their properties without them knowing, crooked walls, leaky guttering and one lady even woke up to the placement of a skip in her front garden without her being informed!

Now, the ongoing horrors continue as yesterday (Monday 31 October) residents who own their properties received letters stating that they had to pay £22,000 for the new roofs and had twenty one days to pay the bill. There is an option to email the leaseholder team to arrange different payment methods.

Jenny who owns a property on Mawney Close and has received the letter asking for £22,000, told the Havering Daily:

“I have no way of paying £22,000, none of us do, no one has a spare £22K. We never wanted a new roof and the work wasn’t even done properly. They took our tiles from the back and moved them to the front of the roof, so how is that a new roof when they used our tiles? The work was done badly, tiles fell off the roof, we found birds nesting in some of the roofs. It has been awful.”

Residents living on the close had scaffolding for nearly a year, with some so close to their windows that they couldn’t even open their windows and feared how they would get out if a fire broke out. Others have had crooked and very poorly built walls, some had flying tiles come crashing down from the roof. Many had leaky guttering that when it rained left water dripping everywhere and others endured workmen walking in and out of their front and back gardens without ever been asked permission.

“We are and angry and anxious,” continues Jenny. “We don’t know how to pay for work that we never asked for. It has been such a horrible experience and now we are even being told to pay for the privilege. These are our homes and no one wants a bill like this hanging over their head.”

The battle on Mawney Close continues……..

A copy of the letter sent to leaseholders asking for the £22,000.