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Failings with ‘partnership’
• HOMES for Islington’s suggestion that they will be “looking at ways to bring this to a conclusion as quickly as possible” (Heavy rain spoils play as all-weather pitch ‘sinks’, August 10) is hard to believe, when they have sat on the problem for almost two and a half years.
Their promise that they will be “updating our tenants and residents association” isn’t something they have chosen to do and we assume that had we not found out about the problem by accident, they would have continued to maintain their silence.
The failure of accountability in these kinds of “partnership” projects couldn’t be more pronounced.
This was a high-profile EC1 New Deal project. They contracted HFI to oversee the works, who then contracted the works to a private contractor.
Both EC1 New Deal and HFI boast of “empowering tenants and communities”. Both have colluded in keeping their mouths shut on this, seemingly to hide their own failings in overseeing the works. Then there is the relationship between HFI and the contractors.
Tenants’ rent money has already paid for two independent surveys to be carried out, to assess the extent of bad workmanship.
We have not seen high quality work on the Finsbury estate and as the tangled web of “partner” relationships gets more complex, more difficult, it seems to uncover failings and bad practice, not, we think, to “empower” either tenants or residents.
SHARRON KELLY
Chairwoman
Finsbury Estate Tenants and
Residents Association
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