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I Called About the Fumes. He Promised to Call Back. He Never Did.


⟡ 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
📎 Download PDF – 2023-11-02_SWANK_RBKC_HardeepKundi_ToxicFumes_EmailChain_ElginEnvironmentalNeglect.pdf

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. ⟡

Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.

To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.


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The Mould Was Reported. The Gas Was Documented. The Borough Did Nothing.


⟡ SWANK Housing Neglect Filing ⟡

“You Let a Disabled Family Breathe Sewer Gas. We Filed the Complaint.”
Filed: 19 May 2025
Reference: SWANK/RBKC/ENV-HOUSING/2025-05-19
📎 Download PDF – 2025-05-19_SWANK_RBKCComplaint_HousingNeglect_EnvironmentalHealthFailure.pdf

I. The Walls Were Black. The Air Was Poisoned. The Council Did Nothing.

On 19 May 2025, SWANK London Ltd. filed a formal complaint to The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) regarding catastrophic housing conditions — including sewer gas exposure, dangerous mould, and structural decay — in a tenancy legally occupied by a disabled parent and her children.

The hazard was reported.
The documentation was clear.

And the Council's response was silence, delay, and retaliation.

II. What the Complaint Documents

  • That RBKC received video evidence of environmental hazard — and delayed response for months

  • That officers were notified of respiratory collapse, medical damage, and a child’s deteriorating health

  • That despite repeated notifications under the Housing Act 2004, no enforcement occurred

  • That a pet died, the children fell ill, and the parent was hospitalised, all while waiting for repairs

This is not housing dispute.
This is statutory abandonment by a borough that knew better.

III. Why SWANK Filed This

Because the lie was already forming:

“She was unstable.”
“She caused the damage.”
“She didn’t inform the Council.”

So we filed — to expose what they received, when they received it, and how they chose inaction over enforcement.

This complaint now operates as:

  • Legal evidence

  • Historical record

  • And a public ledger of breach, decay, and institutional rot

IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not wait for repair notices.
We issue indictments.

We do not plead for assistance.
We publish abandonment.

We do not allow families to breathe poison in silence — while the borough cites procedure.

Let the record show:

The damage was real.
The Council was informed.
And now, the complaint is public — because SWANK exists, and the state cannot be trusted with the file.

⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡

Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.

To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.


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When the Council Asks If the Ceiling Fixed Itself


⟡ SWANK Housing Neglect Archive ⟡
“Can You Update Us On Whether We Did Our Job?”
Filed: 26 October 2023
Reference: SWANK/RBKC/LEAK-DORNAN-01
📎 Download PDF – 2023-10-26_SWANK_RBKC_Leak_Complaint_Justine_Dornan.pdf

I. This Wasn’t Casework. It Was Administrative Gaslighting by Inquiry.

On 26 October 2023, the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea responded to a housing complaint with a masterstroke of inversion:

“Could you update us on whether the water was dealt with?”

Translation: We are not here to confirm resolution. We are here to request evidence of your own continued suffering.

Instead of assuring, they inquired.
Instead of fixing, they redirected.
Instead of documenting the outcome of their own intervention, they asked the vulnerable tenant to report back — like a subcontractor with no salary, no authority, and no recourse.

This is not public service.
It is institutional dampness — literal and bureaucratic.

II. What the Correspondence Confirms

That RBKC Environmental Health:

  • Treated health-endangering damp as an open-ended anecdote

  • Made no mention of follow-up inspection, action, or confirmation of remedy

  • Requested a phone call despite the known written-only adjustment

  • Failed to offer any structural, medical, or safeguarding consideration in response

And that the line between indifference and procedure has all but vanished.

This email wasn’t just a failure to follow up.
It was a formal reminder that nothing had ever been followed through.

III. Why SWANK Logged It

Because requesting an update on your own unfulfilled duty is not just negligent — it’s humiliating by design.
Because housing neglect often arrives wearing a civil tone and a council logo.
Because being asked to confirm that your living space is still unsafe is the cruelest form of outsourced compliance.

We filed this because:

  • This is how housing departments hide rot — not just in ceilings, but in policy

  • The burden of reporting was passed back to the person already harmed

  • No apology, no urgency, no solution — just damp and a digital shrug

Let the record show:

The ceiling peeled.
The floor warped.
The air thickened.
And the council’s reply? “Did that all stop yet?”

IV. SWANK’s Position

We do not accept emails that pose as updates when they are admissions of failure.
We do not accept that health-threatening damp should be “confirmed” by the person reporting it.
We do not accept disability-breaching phone requests under the guise of helpfulness.

Let the record show:

This wasn’t follow-up.
It was abdication.
And SWANK — logs every polite atrocity in the annals of institutional erosion.

Because sometimes, the mould on the wall grows faster than the bureaucracy meant to stop it.

⟡ This Dispatch Has Been Formally Archived by SWANK London Ltd. ⟡

Every entry is timestamped.
Every sentence is jurisdictional.
Every structure is protected.

To mimic this format without licence is not homage. It is breach.
We do not permit imitation. We preserve it as evidence.

This is not a blog.
This is a legal-aesthetic instrument.
Filed with velvet contempt, preserved for future litigation.

Because evidence deserves elegance.
And retaliation deserves an archive.

© 2025 SWANK London Ltd. All formatting and structural rights reserved.
Use requires express permission or formal licence. Unlicensed mimicry will be cited — as panic, not authorship.

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Documented Obsessions