Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

Yes, very good news, Maggie! Wha a relief!

So glad you went for it! (Even though it was so stressful).

silvercar

I know someone that escaped a bad credit history by changing one letter in his surname; the back story was helped by the fact that he grew up overseas so spoke with an accent. He just claimed that he had recently arrived in the UK so there would be no credit history for him.

ivyleaf

I know someone who was born in Mottingham in SE London and when her new passport arrived it said she was born in Nottingham.
She decided it would be much simpler just to leave it rather than mess about getting it changed, and i can't say I blame her.

Pyxis Glad you're ok. Take it easy for a while, eh? I read that the men who were arrested were later released without charge.

Maggie :T :j :T :j That is brilliant news, though I'm so cross that you had to go through it in the first place! Your advocate sounds really excellent :A I hope it won't be long before you can get your car back.

Tahlullah

Tumbleweed...

Pyxis

PasturesNew wrote: »

Big fire. Watching it on the news.

It is absolutely horrendous.

PasturesNew

I thought it was a scabby rotting council block, but when I googled it a lot are in the hands of BTLers and rented at ~£375/week, inc heating/hot water (communal system). One advert even declared "wired for Bang & Olufson" ... so it's a pricey block for the well off or long-term/lucky that has recently been refurbished with new exterior cladding.

24 floors, 6 flats/floor. 2-3 bedroom flats.

Pyxis

Kensington and Chelsea council owns the block, and the local tenant management organisation [KCTMO] runs the borough’s homes.



(I don't know if it was the case here, but sometimes when a large-scale renovation is carried out, a proportion are sold off to help fund the project. I did read that 9 extra flats had been created out of dead space).

People are talking about the new cladding on the whole building contributing to the speed of spread of the fire, and other rumours are about gas works that had been carried out.

It's all speculation at this stage, though.

Utterly ghastly. Poor people.

PasturesNew

One resident said that fire advice is "stay in your flat if there's a fire - you'll be rescued" - he said if they'd done that they'd have been dead. He/gf+child escaped with him just in his boxer shorts / no shoes.

Another resident said he was going down the official fire escape route and "that is the side where the fire was".

One resident said he saw workmen working on gas pipes in a stairwell in recent months. He could be mistaken; there is gas to the communal heating/water system, so they could be plumbers working on the fat water pipes, say.

Having come down a fire escape route, at 1am, in my nightie... with fire clearly raging around me ... I'd not fancy walking out the door and run the risk of being clobbered from above by falling cladding.

Tahlullah

The last time I saw anything this awful was 9/11. I am struggling , again to understand how a concrete block can burn like that.

So, so sad.

GDB2222

Pyxis wrote: »

Kensington and Chelsea council owns the block, and the local tenant management organisation [KCTMO] runs the borough’s homes.



(I don't know if it was the case here, but sometimes when a large-scale renovation is carried out, a proportion are sold off to help fund the project. I did read that 9 extra flats had been created out of dead space).

People are talking about the new cladding on the whole building contributing to the speed of spread of the fire, and other rumours are about gas works that had been carried out.

It's all speculation at this stage, though.

Utterly ghastly. Poor people.

They can't possibly have clad a tall building in stuff that burns? Yet eye witness reports say the cladding was on fire.