"Tower Hamlets mayor Lutfur Rahman said residents had been "up in arms" over the breakdown. He also said he wanted to "look into" whether the developer Canary Wharf Group might be liable for repair costs. Tower Hamlets said there had been four lift outages at Angela Court since 2019, and that six households were temporarily rehomed during the most recent incident."
"What we find quite routinely is that the pumps that address that go out of action and that causes the lift shafts to fill up with wastewater sewage, and that in turn impacts the electrics of the lifts. "Fundamentally the issues are with the pumps themselves, and that in our view would be a design problem that we can't necessarily easily address."
Some families in Angela Court, Burdett Road, Mile End, were rehomed for near enough two weeks while lifts were repaired. There have been four lift outages at Angela Court since 2019, and six households were temporarily rehomed during the most recent incident. The lift shafts fill with wastewater because the blocks' sewage system runs within the lift shafts and pumps that address this routinely go out of action. Flooding of the shafts impacts lift electrics, leading to failures. Fixing the problem would require significant investment, may be technically challenging, and could involve assessing developer liability.
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