• wewbull@feddit.uk
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    3 months ago

    It sounds like this is a partially converted office block, which may explain the fire safety issues. Worrying that people could still live there with known issues.

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      3 months ago

      I’m not sure what gives you that impression. The article just says “Mixed use residential and commercial” which applies to hundreds of thousands of purpose built apartment buildings.

      The article specifies that they had fire safety compliance citations last year for the building cladding not being up to code.

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        3 months ago

        True. I’d taken commercial as meaning offices, but I guess it could be retail.

        Converting office space is a trend in London right now though.

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          Could also be restaurants. I lived in a mixed use building above a few restaurants once. I wouldn’t recommend it. The restaurants would semi-regularly set off the fire alarm for the entire building, including in the middle of the night.

          Nothing quite like trying to rush to wrangle a dog and a rabbit and put on some clothes at 3:00 in the morning. Fortunately, the rabbit was deaf, so he was the easiest part of the process.