MP's survey of Leeds tower blocks put on hold due to coronavirus
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Rachel Reeves, the MP for Leeds West, has 26 tower blocks in her constituency - the highest proportion for all the Leeds constituencies.
Since being re-elected in December she and her team have been taking and re-collecting surveys that have been put out to residents asking what are the issues and concerns they have in their block.
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Hide AdIt follows from a first survey she did back in 2012 and was prompted to repeat it after getting stuck in a lift in The Heights at Armley.
On the back of that survey, the management of council housing was brought back in-house and there have been improvements to the running ever since.
Mrs Reeves added: “The council agreed they could have those things. Things did improve and people can have pride and make it their home.”
Around 100 surveys have been returned so far but due to restrictions on social distancing and self-isolating it has been put on hold until after the lockdown.
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Hide AdHowever, of those responses, the main issues listed appear to be cleanliness of communal areas, broken lifts and disrepair.