Image: Google Street View Image: Google Street View OWNERS OF PROPERTIES in a complex in Blackrock, Dublin, have been hit with a bill of €18,000 each to repair fire safety deficiencies at their homes.
Alternative insurance was obtained but in order to meet the conditions of the new insurance, the owners’ management company commissioned Crawford Architects to conduct a survey of the complex. The main issued identified involved fire-stopping. Each apartment should essentially be its own separate fire rated unit, that protects residents for a required duration before a fire spreads into it from a neighbouring unit or a common area.
One of the owners of an apartment in the complex, told TheJournal.ie that he and his wife will struggle to come up with the €18,000 required for the works. I’m not going to start screaming on behalf of landlords, I’m not a big landlord by any means, but there are [rent] restrictions in place. Our main objective is to cover the mortgage – we do that – and we also have to pay the management fees, which the tenant doesn’t pay and everything else on top of that. He said it would not be possible for them to sell the property until the deficiencies are addressed.
Last month TheJournal.ie revealed residents at another apartment complex – Simonsridge in Sandyford, – were told it could cost them up to €14,000 each to repair the fire safety defects.
Great to see the lessons learned from priory hall have been implemented and regulations now rock solid 🤷🏻♂️
Builders, if can't pay, should be in jail ..
Banana Republic at it's best. Public servants who approved planning permission should be made responsible and sent to jail. Otherwise this type of crap will continue indefinitely.
Builders self regulating with absolutely no future accountability for their actions. The people who subsequently signed off on these projects have a lot to answer for.
Eh are the Builders/Engineers who signed off on this, paying anything ?
Can they not sue the builder, architect, government watchdog?
Who signed off on this? Who does the fire check? Where’s the architect that drew the plans up?
Let me guess, developers still lapping it up in some nice area of county Dublin, trading as some new dodgy developer. Was it Brian Cowen who said we all took a bite of the cherry, during the boom, No we didnt but some definitley ate the a whole bowl, & left atrail of destruction
One can only hope that the current residential towers under construction are fully compliant with fire safety regulations.
Same story in London following grenfell.
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