R.It raises the conditions within Leaside Lock, a new construction development in East London, barely secret. Last June, a written warning was placed in Big Letters on one apartment window. “Don’t buy these apartments. Very hot,” I read.
It was difficult to miss those who walk across the extreme horizon, and after picking it up and posting it on social media, she owned the sign Get More than 500,000 views. More than a year later, during the summer when the UK recorded the second warmest June and the fifth most hot in July since 1884, residents say the heat is still a problem.
“When I try to sleep at night, it becomes unbearable.” Options to cool it in an apartment facing the south is limited. “All I can do is open the window,” he said.
Development is located in Tower Hamlets, which is the most densely populated town in the UK. Eighty percent of families live in apartments designed for this purpose, which is the second highest in England and Wales and the London rate doubles at the London level. The town also saw a huge boom in the sky, where 71 buildings are built with 20 floors or more between 2014 and 2024. All of these factors collect to make living in the town a hot box for many.
Experts have warned that many new homes are built in the UK are not designed to withstand the most extreme summer temperatures due to climate change. They called on the government to update the upcoming future houses to include provisions for heavy homes.
The regulations are scheduled to publish this fall and enter into force from 2027, but the focus was mainly on it How to keep homes warm in the winterInstead of keeping it cold in the summer.
The highest road of Leaside Lock sits another development, three water. “You seem to be in a trap,” said Sandra Montero, who lives on the eleventh floor in one of the complex.
The 41 -year -old teacher lived in the apartment with her husband for about three years, but the exciting heat means that she is thinking about leaving. She said: “Our temperatures have not rose to less than 27 degrees Celsius inside the house in the past two months.” Its peak was 33 degrees Celsius this summer.
This is my apartment. Leaside Lock Development in Bromley -By-Bow. They have already discovered two parts of my MVHR are not correctly installed. It is still like living in an oven although this is “fixed”! Guinnesshomes #Lisidelock pic.twitter.com/dah6gidb0f
– Aidan Sheehan (Adan_sheehan) June 22, 2024
When temperatures rise within 25 degrees Celsius, the risks increase in health as well, which may cause or increase cardiovascular problems, sleep disorder, mental health problems and heat fatigue.
Montero said that the heat in its apartment causes frequent headaches. She said: “Fatigue, and the feeling that we are out of breathing. We have suffered from a feeling of extreme exhaustion, even when we wake up.” “When we travel abroad, we do not test a lot of exhaustion as we do here in the United Kingdom, and it is definitely related to heat.”
The UK Green Building Council said that street trees are a simple and cost -effective way to maintain the calm of homes. But the Monteiro block is located next to the crowded A12 and the streets below from any green space. “If we have windows open because of the highway, we get a lot of dust and heat that comes from it,” she said.
She bought 25 % of the house with her husband for 121,000 pounds. Moreover, you pay 1,264 pounds per month for rent. She said: “It is my first summer to really suffer from high temperatures and I feel that I am completely not sure whether I want to continue to live here.”
“We want the residents to feel comfortable in their homes throughout the year and work with construction partners to ensure the design of homes with shading and shading, taking into account the risk of high temperature,” said a PEABODY spokesman, who runs three water.
They said that, given that the new regulations to reduce the risk of high temperature of the new buildings were presented in 2022, they added features to new homes such as external shutters that allow daylight but prevent heat. He said: “We also look at materials that help keep the houses cold during the summer and warmer in the winter.”
“Out of 440 properties in their blocks, they only received complaints from four owners of homes about heat inside their homes, all of whom were adapted to reduce temperatures. They said: “The image that I shared relates to the owner of a house that had a specific and unique issue in their treatment of property.”
The maximum north in the city sits Consterell House. The 55 -meter council’s council bloc became a symbol of the city’s inner life after it appeared on the cover of the first street album for the original materials. It is located along a crowded road in isington, which – after Tower Hamlets – has the second highest population density in the UK. It also suffers from a lack of green spaces, and the residents can reach an average of 2 meters on average2 From the green area per person, the lowest amount of any region in the UK, according to the Friends of the Earth.
Chris Braun, 76, lived at the top of the Consterell home since 1987. In 38 years of living as a tenant, he found a growing problem. In summer, temperatures within the seventeenth -floor apartment rarely to 27 ° C. This year, they reached a height of 30 degrees Celsius and in the previous heat waves, which amounted to 35 ° C.
The semi -retired psychotherapist has installed the air conditioning unit in his living room due to fears of what the heat could do for his health. He said: “I spent as much as possible here, in front of the cold air explosion of the air conditioning unit.”
Brown has a state of heart, diabetes and chronic fatigue syndrome. “This makes people die, so I felt anxious,” he said.
Hot houses are not only uncomfortable – they can be fatal. During the heat waves in 2024, the UK’s Health Security Agency numbers estimated that about 358 people died at home, partly due to the maximum temperatures.
Deaths tend to rise because the heat exacerbates the current medical conditions, instead of causing the death of healthy people directly – influenza and pneumonia mortality was directly higher than it was during the year 2024 of the heat waves, and the deaths of circulatory disease, dementia and Alzheimer’s had increased by 11 %.
The heat affects the current health conditions of Bru they. “Thermal stress makes worship worse, so life is just a little more conflict,” he said. “Sleep became difficult. It is tired. I was constantly feeling more tired than usual.”
Long buildings, especially those surrounded by the horizon towers, are vulnerable to the effect of the urban heat island – where it absorbs materials such as concrete, asphalt and retention of heat. Brown said that the heat wanders, even when the temperatures decrease outside. “It is not cool. It is like a brick oven,” he said.
“We realize that many people in isington live in apartments built in a different era that was not designed for extreme heat. This should be a real effect, and they are looking for practitioners, or who are looking for practitioners, and they are looking for their practices, and they are looking for health practices, and health practices, They are looking for their practices at the present time, and they are looking for their practices in the field of exercise.