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Please look carefully at all the photographs below.
These photographs show a little part of what has turned out to be the biggest house-building
fraud in the British Isles. I took these photographs inside my former, and almost new, home at 56 Carlisle Park, Ballynahinch, Co. Down, Northern Ireland, during a futile attempt to rectify a smoke nuisance coming into my home from No. 54 Carlisle Park.
Why were scores of building contractors allowed to use this rubbish
to build thousands of houses throughout Northern Ireland?
This photograph shows the party or dividing wall between No. 54 and No. 56 Carlisle Park after a section of my half of this wall was removed in my hallway. My half of the wall was built entirely of terralux blocks. See photographs below.
Why did scores of Council Building Control Inspectors throughout Northern Ireland pass this
rubbish being built into thousands of homes?
This photograph was taken looking away from our front door and shows the dividing wall between
No. 54 and No. 56 Carlisle Park with my staircase partly removed. A few
solid bricks can be seen to the left of the photograph. The law required
that the whole two 'skins' of this wall should have been built with these
solid bricks as well as the complete chimney breast and fireplace jambs.
You can see that the two wall 'skins' are built with Terralux blocks.
When Down District Council's Building Control Inspectors and Public Health Inspectors
already knew the cause of my complaint, why did they put in writing
that I had nothing to complain about?
Party or dividing wall between No. 54 and No. 56 Carlisle Park.
This photograph was taken in our hallway (No. 56) looking towards our front door. You can see that our half of the dividing wall, part of which has been removed, has been
built completely with Terralux blocks. The other half of the dividing wall
on the right belonging to No. 54, has some solid brick behind the fireplace
of No. 54. This wall on the side of the fireplace towards the front of
the house is also built with Terralux blocks. These blocks are blackened
with the coal smoke coming from the fireplace of No. 54 through the terralux
blocks. In fact, if you look closely, you can actually see the smoke coming
out of the wall.
Party or dividing wall between No. 54 and No. 56 Carlisle Park. When householders living
in terraced houses built with this rubbish complained that the coal smoke
from neighbours' fireplaces polluted their living and sleeping areas, Local Council Environmental Health Inspectors refused to take action because the offending houses would have been knocked down, of necessity, and rebuilt to replace this...
Left hand side and rear of fireplace of No. 56 built into party or dividing wall between No. 56 and No. 58 Carlisle Park Why did Council Building Control Inspectors, Central Government Subsidy Control Inspectors, and the National House Building Council Inspectors, pass houses built like this, and why did Building Society surveyors, in my case the Nationwide Building Society's surveyor, accept this rubbish as acceptable security for the funds of their investors?
Right hand side and rear of fireplace of No. 56 built into party or dividing wall between
No. 56 and No. 58 Carlisle Park.
I had to pay to get this work carried out on my former home just in time to prevent my
fire from setting fire to the house next door after my neighbour in No.
58 complained that my coal smoke was polluting their home and would prevent
them selling it. No. 58 was sold for the market price shortly afterwards.
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