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Environmental Catastrophe in a Chelsea Basement: The Sewage Leak That Westminster Forgot
A Housing Exposure Scandal Ignored in 350 Emails or More
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Filed: 11 July 2025
Reference Code: PC-ADD-012
Court File Name: 2025-07-11_Addendum_HousingHazard_ElginCrescentSewageExposure
Summary: RBKC and Westminster failed to act on a sewage leak that poisoned a vulnerable household and triggered retaliatory safeguarding.
I. What Happened
Between June and October 2023, Polly Chromatic and her four asthmatic children lived at Flat E, 37 Elgin Crescent, a basement property in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. The flat became a biohazard after raw sewage overflowed into the property, emitting toxic fumes and causing respiratory distress across the household.
Polly reported the environmental hazard repeatedly — to Environmental Health, to Housing Services, and to the landlord’s representative. The result?
Crickets.
The family was ultimately forced into emergency hotel accommodation, unaided and unafforded, while RBKC and Westminster maintained a bureaucratic shrug.
II. What the Complaint Establishes
RBKC Environmental Health logged the incident under case ref. 333267
Emails to Hardeep Kundi, Housing Officer, confirm toxicity due to sewer fumes
Elad Katz (landlord’s agent) was aware and later replaced due to mismanagement
Multiple emails show unresolved communication failures despite the property being uninhabitable
Despite hundreds of emails, this environmental crisis was never factored into the Local Authority’s safeguarding narrative
III. Why SWANK Logged It
Because toxicity is not a parenting problem.
Because institutions with inboxes full of unread cries for help should not govern vulnerable families.
And because ignoring 350+ emails is not policy — it is negligence dressed in lanyard casualwear.
This was not a minor mould patch or a leaky tap. It was a full-fledged respiratory hazard in a known high-risk family, compounded by asthma, disability, and procedural cruelty. This hazard was then erased from context when social services later claimed instability without acknowledging the reason for the forced hotel relocation.
IV. Violations
Environmental Health Duty Breach – Failure to act on life-threatening sewer gas exposure
Safeguarding Misrepresentation – Exclusion of known hazard from children’s welfare narrative
Procedural Disregard – Local Authority ignored material evidence repeatedly submitted
Disability Discrimination – Chronic respiratory illness dismissed despite medical disclosures
V. SWANK’s Position
SWANK London Ltd. holds that environmental exposure to sewage in council-registered properties—particularly when vulnerable children are present—warrants immediate action, not spreadsheet avoidance.
This archive entry is formally logged to establish that the Local Authority:
Had the evidence,
Had the contact,
And chose not to care.
Where institutions pretend not to read, we document every unread email as an indictment.
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