Rather than establish a boring on-going maintenance programme to fix the drains and carry out essential repairs the City awarded themselves a capital project to completely resurface the western end of northern Barbican highwalks. The project took ages, inconvenienced residents for years and cost a fortune. In the end the highwalk looks little better than it did before (some say worse) and the water penetration problems, the excuse for the project in the first place, remain.
The City are currently trying to justify a re-run of this disaster at the eastern end of the northern part of the Barbican highwalks, Ben Jonson Highwalk and its neighbours.
The number one priority in this context should be to fix the drains as part of a long term on-going maintenance programme ... but no.
And then the City acts all surprised when water penetration is *still* causing problems on the western highwalk illustrating that the resurfacing project was, in many ways, worse than useless.
As reported in the latest Barbican Estate Bulletin:
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As reported in the latest Barbican Estate Bulletin:
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Podium repair work - Beech Gardens
Property Services have been carrying out work to resolve a leak into the reception area of Nuffield Health. An area of podium tiling had been lifted and waterproofing work carried out to cure the leak.
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