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Residents in temporary accommodation displaced by Clapton fire
A number of the flats which were evacuated following a fire in a block in east London earlier this week were used to house families in temporary accommodation, Inside Housing can reveal.
Local Space, a housing association set up by Newham Council to provide temporary accommodation, leases 13 of the 55 flats that make up Limehouse Lodge in Clapton.
Inside Housing spoke to one Local Space resident who said he and his family have not been allowed to return to their flat, which they have lived in for two years, because of concerns over the roof caving in.
The family, who lived on the second floor of the building, is currently being put up in a hotel by the association.
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Mark Kent, operations director at Local Space, said the organisation was “doing everything” to make sure tenants and their families have a place to stay.
Around 80 firefighters were called to a partly timber-clad block in Clapton on Monday night after a fire broke out on a balcony.
London Fire Brigade said the balcony from the ground to the fifth floor was destroyed by the fire, while part of the roof and a flat on the fifth floor also sustained damage.
