Local Democracy Reporter Josh Mellor exposes the botched refurbishment of LBWF’s John Walsh and Fred Wigg towers in Leytonstone
Local Democracy Reporter Josh Mellor has just published a terrific story in the Waltham Forest Echo about the botched refurbishment of LBWF’s John Walsh and Fred Wigg towers in Leytonstone, which has taken four years and millions of pounds, but for the most part remains incomplete:
It’s all there: shoddy workmanship, cheap materials, haphazard job scheduling, spiralling costs, indifference to resident anxieties, and, as the programme failed, the coup de grace, LBWF’s surreptitious appointment of a consultant to ‘examine options’ – it’s almost a masterclass in how not to do it.
So who are the local councillors with the responsibility for making sure this didn’t happen? Step forward Keith Rayner, in the past served with two notices, a reminder, and a summons for non-payment of council tax; and the hapless Sally Littlejohn, one time wannabe MP, and the subject of a 2021 pasting in Private Eye:
And it won’t come as a surprise that as regards John Walsh and Fred Wigg they have previous, see the link below to ‘LBWF and fire hazards in its housing stock…’.
