Colin Witherspoon, from Linlithgow, says the crumbling concrete is a “disaster waiting to happen
” as he fears it could collapse on top of him and his partner as they sleep.
“About six or seven months ago we got a letter through from the council that said they had identified RAAC in similar properties to ours. Since I am a builder I was able to get a surveyor pal in and he found RAAC on the roof. “We also have people that have just moved in and have no equity in their property. It is a complete mess.”
“If not all of it, then I feel they should be covering most of it as they used the cheaper RAAC material at the time of building the homes 40-50 years ago. “The council last sold former council homes in 2017/18 when the Right to Buy scheme ended, and this pre-dates the identification of RAAC planks in a limited number of council houses. New guidance was issued by the Institute of Structural Engineers in April 2023 regarding survey programmes and the presence of RAAC, which was adopted by the Scottish Government, other local authorities and Registered Social Landlords.
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