![]() ![]() This adds up to £1,550 a month for a two-bedroom shipping container. ![]() One bed is £324.40 per week, while a two-bed is £387.69 per week. Perhaps the shocking most detail of Marston Court is how much it costs to live there. Meanwhile, the electronic gate, which is supposed to control the flow of people onto the estate, has been broken for three years according to one resident, giving access to drug dealers.Įveryone Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS) spoke to was scared and every single person had at least one technical issue in their containers. Improperly secured doors and windows give birth to colonies of mould, unsanitary conditions have spawned armies of cockroaches, while the lack of proper foundations means that plumbing and electrical problems are constant. Within the containers, poor insulation means they are converted into ovens in hot weather and freezers during winter. Residents pay £1,550 a month for a two-bedroom shipping container It's very hard to imagine anyone actually living there, with the whole place looking like it was built as a film set for a cautionary dystopian movie. The estate is often deathly quiet and even the sunny weather can’t brighten the rusty walkways, tired pathways and stacks of grey containers. READ MORE: Woman sleeps overnight in council offices as security forced to just stay with her when she refuses to leave in housing protestīarely fit for animals let alone people said one observer (Image: Facundo Arrizabalaga/MyLondon) Marston Court, as this estate is known, is so nearly obscured by the buildings around it that it is very easy to forget the tens of individuals and families, largely single mothers with their children, that live there.įor the many trapped in the ‘temporary’ housing, they feel the council has left them to fester in shipping containers so uninhabitable that some residents said they would prefer to sleep in parks or under bridges than stay there. ![]() A spot where people made homeless, often through little fault of their own, pay through the nose to inhabit corrugated metal cells designed to transport goods. However, unfortunately for some, this is home. The council ‘houses’ look from afar like work site offices, set up, temporarily, to shelter workers on their tea breaks. While taking a stroll along Bordars Walk in Ealing you might catch a glimpse of a strange scattering of buildings off in the periphery. ![]()
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