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Subject: Keeping Cool in London?
Date: Wednesday 22 June 2005 09:49
From: Gary D Chance
To: yourlondon@bbc.co.uk

I'm not.

My living room temperature was 38C yesterday and has stayed around 36 to 38C for all these days.  The lowest it gets in the living room is 36C at night.

I've got a fan that blows the hot air around for some relief and drink about four litres of water a day.  A cold bath is nice too.

Tenant Management in the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea for the Lancaster West Estate is incompetent and corrupt.  They are corrupt because they try to cover up safety and health problems rather than deal with them competently and attack me for reporting them to get them fixed.

The central heating is still on with the hot water pipes to the radiators under the floor heating this flat continuously throughout the summer.  Now, this is easily shut on and off centrally as I learned when I first moved into this flat in May 1996.

However, when I complained about this to the Leader of the Council a couple years ago during/after that lethal heat wave, I received a letter in reply that access had to be obtained to the flat to turn off the central heating.  This was a false representation.  I'm still trying to figure out why this statement was made.

They do not access the 900 or so flats in the Lancaster West Estate to turn off and then on the central heating in May and October each year.  That would be a nightmare and is contrary to my initial experience and description provided to me by a plumber in May 1996 at the time I moved in.  Then, the heat was turned off and on centrally with no problems.

This is actually a quite serious problem by making people susceptible to lethal levels of temperatures by leaving on the central heating to say nothing about the cost of heating that circulating water

This is something you folks should investigate for its news value and to provide a public service to see what the truth is in all of this and why the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea is not turning off the central heating in this huge Estate.

Maybe you can get the central heat turned off in this Estate and save lives if we really get another heat wave like the one which occurred a couple of years ago.