East Londoners living in Sutton Wolf
上周，伦敦第四次热浪来袭，居住在萨顿沃尔夫的东伦敦居民
were without running water for 15 hours
停水长达 15 个小时
during the city's fourth heatwave last
week. We spoke to a resident about their
。 我们与一位居民谈论了他们的
experience.
经历。
Uh I own this um home. Uh I've owned it
呃，我拥有这个家。 呃我已经拥有它
for uh 10 years. It was sold to us by
十年了。 它是由
the Guinness Partnership and we've
吉尼斯合作组织卖给我们的，但
really had nothing but problems over the
过去 10 年来我们遇到的问题一直很多
10 years. Uh the latest of which is we
。 呃，最新的情况是我们
don't have any water at all. Uh toilets
根本没有水。 呃，马桶
don't flush, showers don't work. Uh we
冲水不畅，淋浴也不工作。 呃，我们
have no running water at all in the
flat. And that problem applies to the
公寓里根本没有自来水。 这个问题适用于
entire development of around 300 homes.
整个约 300 栋房屋的开发项目。
>> In a statement to the standard, the
Guinness Partnership said, "When the
吉尼斯合作组织在一份声明中表示：“当
water supply cut out in Graphite Point,
石墨角的供水中断时，
we contacted all residents in the
我们在8月13日上午和下午联系了所有居民
morning in the early afternoon on August
13th. We said on-site contractors will
。我们说现场承包商会给
hand out water to any residents.
所有居民送水。
>> You can see um
你可以看到
couple of holes drilled.
几个被钻的洞。
Apparently that breaches it as a fire
显然，这破坏了防火
door cuz it actually the flames and the
门，因为火焰和
heat could go inside the door then.
热量实际上会从门里进来。
But they've repeatedly said in their
但他们反复表示，
opinion even though we've had um far
即使我们已经有很多
people come out that that's um not a
人出来，他们也认为这不是
problem.
问题。
And that's been like that for I don't
这种情况已经持续了
know seven or eight years now.
七八年了。
>> That what they're doing is they're built
他们正在
they're building tomorrow's slums. Uh
建造未来的贫民窟。呃，
they're building the next generation of
他们正在建造下一代
East London slums. Now these are these
东伦敦贫民窟。现在这些
are quite nice buildings but Guinness
建筑都很不错，但吉尼斯
has put no effort into wanting people to
并没有努力让人们
remain as residents here. I'd say
继续在这里居住。我想
probably 85 to 90% of the people that
大概85%到90%的住户
live here are short-term rentals and we
都是短期租房，我们
don't know who they are and the rents
不会…… 你知道他们是谁，租金也各
vary and you know you can have some
不相同，你也知道这里可以住一些
unusual people living here but
不寻常的人，但
effectively it takes the building on a
实际上，这会让这栋楼走上
trajectory of being a rental slum for
the future.
未来成为租赁贫民窟的道路。
>> Guinness said they strongly refute the
吉尼斯表示，他们强烈驳斥“
statement that they are building the
他们正在建造
slums of tomorrow. We're investing
未来贫民窟”的说法。我们正投资
over40 million pounds to significantly
超过4000万英镑，大幅
improve the buildings, including
改善这些建筑，包括
remediating issues in the developer's
修复开发商
original construction. Guinness did not
最初建筑中存在的问题。吉尼斯并没有
build these properties. We purchased
建造这些房产。我们
them from the developer. They had been
从开发商手中购买了它们。这些房产
signed off by building control at the
在购买时已经由建筑控制部门签字确认
point of purchase. We are rectifying any
。我们正在纠正
defects or quality issues now identified
目前发现的任何在购买时无法察觉的缺陷或质量问题。
that would not have been visible at the
point of purchase. We carry out
我们根据2022年英格兰消防安全法规的要求，对
inspection of fire doors, including flat
防火门（包括平开门）进行检查。
front doors, in line with the
requirements of the Fire Safety England
regulations 2022.
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