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'Time for a cold call'.
December 21, 2007.
Your article "Cold tenants should
receive compensation", (Wood & Vale, December
14) very helpfully advises the tenants at Bartlett
Court of their rights. I should ask why their
landlord, the Genesis Housing Group, Paddington
Churches Housing Association, did not do so.
We have had a sharp autumn, and may
be in for a cold winter. Elderly people could very
easily die if the heating fails again. Certainly,
if this were to happen, we could expect the chief
executive, Anu Vedi, to face manslaughter charges,
possibly along with the Genesis chair, Adrian Bell,
managing director of the Royal Bank of Canada
(Europe) Ltd. This would create change in their
wretched maintenance department. There is a better
way.
If the tenants of Bartlett Court
were to go for the maximum possible rate of
compensation, an exemplary and punitive sum, and
seek legal help in this, then the consequential
cost of bad maintenance might force change on this
irresponsible landlord.
The tenants should not imagine that
they might be injuring social housing. PCHA is not
a charity. If it were, it would be registered with
the Charities Commisssion.
Yours sincerely
Peter Rutherford.
Press Relations, Independent
Federation of Genesis Residents.
See also:
W&V, front page, Nov 30
W&V, letters, Dec
7
W&V, artlcle, page 7, Dec
14.
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