⟡ SWANK Environmental Harm Archive ⟡
“This Is the Email That Let the Gas Keep Leaking.”
Filed: 2 November 2023
Reference: SWANK/RBKC/FUMES/KUNDI-CHAIN-2023
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I. A Gas Leak Was Reported. A Call Was Promised. No One Came.
On 2 November 2023, Hardeep Kundi of RBKC Private Sector Housing replied to an email documenting toxic environmental conditions at a rented property on Elgin Crescent — specifically, persistent sewer gas exposure.
The reply was short. Polite.
“I’ll speak to the landlord.”
He did not.
The fumes continued.
The tenant — a disabled parent with four children — collapsed days later.
II. What the Email Chain Reveals
That Category 1 housing hazard was clearly reported
That the officer acknowledged receipt and appeared responsive
That no follow-up inspection, enforcement, or even written advice followed
That RBKC had early, internal knowledge of a medically dangerous housing defect and took no meaningful action
This isn’t neglect of process.
This is neglect as process.
III. Why SWANK Archived It
Because public authorities routinely say:
“We were not made aware.”
This file says otherwise.
We archived this because:
It establishes the first institutional timestamp of environmental harm
It exposes the performative layer of responsiveness
It documents the false hope cycle: concern expressed, follow-up evaded, danger sustained
Let the record show:
The officer was informed.
The air was poisoned.
The promise was procedural.
And the result was harm.
IV. SWANK’s Position
We do not accept kindness in tone as substitute for compliance in action.
We do not confuse acknowledgment with remedy.
We do not permit housing officers to nod politely while a child breathes methane.
Let the record show:
This email chain is polite.
It is professional.
It is absolutely damning.
This is not communication.
This is the first institutional silence — dressed in nine civil words.
⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡
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