Balconies 'doomed from the start' on £41m estate
A ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ London investigation has found balconies on a new-build housing estate in east London, built by construction giant Bouygues UK, were so poorly designed they "posed a risk to life".
The ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ previously revealed a balcony that partially collapsed on the Weavers Quarter in Barking was built using the wrong materials, leading to hundreds of residents being told their balconies were unsafe.
But experts who reviewed the original plans obtained by the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ now say the balconies were fatally flawed and prone to collapse from the start, even if built to specification.
ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ London's Guy Lynn has the story.
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