A BUILDING COMPANY HAS TAKEN CANTERBURY CITY COUNC

A BUILDING COMPANY HAS TAKEN CANTERBURY CITY COUNCIL TO THE
HIGH COURT DEMANDING OVER #27,000 FOR UNPAID WORK.

BUT THE COUNCIL IS COUNTERING THE LONDON HIGH COURT

ACTION CLAIMING THAT THE WORK WAS SO POORLY DONE THEY HAD TO EMPLOY

ANOTHER COMPANY TO RE-DO IT.

THE DISPUTE IS OVER THE INSTALLATION OF CHIMNEY FLUE LINERS IN

172 COUNCIL HOUSES.

DENNE BUILDERS LIMITED OF SCHOOL LANE, WINGHAM, CANTERBURY,
WHICH HAD DONE PREVIOUS WORK ON THE HOUSES, CONTRACTED THE JOB TO
ANOTHER CANTERBURY COMPANY, KEMEL PROJECTS LIMITED.

THE WORK WAS COMPLETED ION NOVEMBER 1980.

BUT BY JANUARY 1981 THE COUNCIL ARCHITECTS WERE RECEIVING
COMPLAINTS.

MR.

FELIX CRANBROOK, REPRESENTING THE COUNCIL, SAID :’THE
BOTTOMS OF MANY OF THE FLUES DISINTEGRATED AND IN ONE CASE COMPLETELY

CRUMPLED’.

HE SAID THE FLUES HADN’T BEEN SWEPT BEFORE THE LINERS WERE

INSTALLED.

THE HEARING IS EXPECTED TO CONTINUE FOR TWO WEEKS.

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