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By Joseph Lee
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image captionRitu Saha and fellow residents in Bromley organised their own fire patrols but still had to pay £500,000 between them
, many buildings with dangerous cladding still have 24-hour fire safety patrols - introduced originally as a temporary measure. Now, thousands more homeowners are being forced to pay for waking watches with no end in sight.
In November 2017, when people in high-vis jackets arrived at Ritu Saha s block in Bromley, south-east London, she was told not to worry: they d be gone by January.
Three years and about £500,000 of charges to flat owners in the block later, they are still there.
AHR-designed Sheffield housing block evacuated over fire risk
1/2 Wicker Riverside by Aedas, now known as AHR
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Residents of a Sheffield apartment block designed by AHR – then known as Aedas – have been evacuated after the building failed fire safety tests
Developed by Artisan Wicker and completed in 2007, the 10-storey Wicker Riverside building, north of Sheffield’s city centre, houses 132 flats as well as ground-floor shops and an underground car park.
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South Yorkshire Fire and Rescue Service served the building a prohibition notice at the weekend ordering residents of the 35 flats on the sixth floor upwards to leave following an inspection of the property on Friday (11 December) evening.