Council brings in security firm at Brooke House

Brooke House in Basildon Town Square Brooke House in Basildon Town Square

A PRIVATE security firm has been put in place at Basildon's Brooke House.

The service, introduced by Basildon Council, is designed to help residents whilst the lift refurbishment takes place.

They will be at the tower block in the Town Square between 8am and 8pm seven days a week until the refurburbishment is completed in January.

Comments(14)

Ells says...
12:10pm Wed 10 Oct 12

A security firm to help residents 'air their issues' about the lifts being refurbed? This article makes no sense at all.......

Bester says...
12:26pm Wed 10 Oct 12

So, a security firm is providing some kind of a presence in a council block to somehow help residents communicate with the council? Is that a correct assessment? I don't understand this at all.

xxxdave says...
12:30pm Wed 10 Oct 12

I am sure they are there to assist residents carry shopping etc up the stairs Lol. also who will be paying for this extra service?. Maybe Tony Ball will be there personally helping residents.

Eric Whim says...
4:24pm Wed 10 Oct 12

those XFor litter patrol boys and girls get a nice indoors job perhaps?
Which counciller's security firm got the job?

TherealIndiana says...
4:57pm Wed 10 Oct 12

Piggy back to the top anyone?

TherealIndiana says...
4:57pm Wed 10 Oct 12

Piggy back to the top anyone?

Basildon.lad.21 says...
5:00pm Wed 10 Oct 12

The only reason why they have a security firm in the flats, is to stop the crackheads beating up the workmen from fixing their lifts, which they use as a public toilet.

naffeville says...
5:21pm Wed 10 Oct 12

So where am I supposed to go for a jimmy now then, have to do it out the window

Steve H says...
7:31pm Wed 10 Oct 12

Brooke House is full of scum, single chav mums and druggies. Repairs don't get done as workmen are regulary threatened, even the council won't go near there!!

SpaffSpiff84 says...
9:32pm Wed 10 Oct 12

Its not that bad there, just the lifts stink of urine and you have to make sure your clothes dont touch the inside of them, a few scumbags live there but considering how many flats there are thats to be expected

thesouthendone says...
10:31am Thu 11 Oct 12

Hopefully this security firm have been properly trained as to how to help elderly and infirm people up the stairs and they are not just making it up as they go along or they could end up causing more problems then they solve!

stan06 says...
10:33am Thu 11 Oct 12

Steve H wrote:
Brooke House is full of scum, single chav mums and druggies. Repairs don't get done as workmen are regulary threatened, even the council won't go near there!!
NOT that your comment is relevant to this story, BUT i live in Brooke House and im not sure how you come to your conclusion, sorry to disappoint but I don't do drugs or have any kiddies. I have also had no problems with the council coming up to do repairs etc in the years that I have been living there (that doesn't mean I threaten them either).

I, like the other residents of flats on my floor, go to work, pay my rent and taxes and am just quite relieved to get home of an evening. It doesn't matter where you live as soon, as you get home you shut that door, that's it!

Yes, I will agree with you that there is some scum living in Brooke House, but please don't tar the rest of us with that brush.

Barry Bas says...
10:51am Thu 11 Oct 12

stan06 wrote:
Steve H wrote: Brooke House is full of scum, single chav mums and druggies. Repairs don't get done as workmen are regulary threatened, even the council won't go near there!!
NOT that your comment is relevant to this story, BUT i live in Brooke House and im not sure how you come to your conclusion, sorry to disappoint but I don't do drugs or have any kiddies. I have also had no problems with the council coming up to do repairs etc in the years that I have been living there (that doesn't mean I threaten them either). I, like the other residents of flats on my floor, go to work, pay my rent and taxes and am just quite relieved to get home of an evening. It doesn't matter where you live as soon, as you get home you shut that door, that's it! Yes, I will agree with you that there is some scum living in Brooke House, but please don't tar the rest of us with that brush.
You're not Old Man Stan are you?

Devils Advocate says...
8:24pm Sun 14 Oct 12

stan06 wrote:
Steve H wrote:
Brooke House is full of scum, single chav mums and druggies. Repairs don't get done as workmen are regulary threatened, even the council won't go near there!!
NOT that your comment is relevant to this story, BUT i live in Brooke House and im not sure how you come to your conclusion, sorry to disappoint but I don't do drugs or have any kiddies. I have also had no problems with the council coming up to do repairs etc in the years that I have been living there (that doesn't mean I threaten them either).

I, like the other residents of flats on my floor, go to work, pay my rent and taxes and am just quite relieved to get home of an evening. It doesn't matter where you live as soon, as you get home you shut that door, that's it!

Yes, I will agree with you that there is some scum living in Brooke House, but please don't tar the rest of us with that brush.
Don't get too wound up stan06. Most of the people that make this level of comment are the "Trollers" who spend their lives looking for someone to put down with their inane comments. They appear to believe that they become a little more important with every individual they manage to insult. Being as most of our villains and time wasters are from the upper end of the middle class (as they call themselves), you can empathise much more these days with a single parent with three kids who is forced by circumstance to live in a high rise. Even more sad are the young drug takers led astray by those same evil middle class buffoons. Be proud of your position in life, ignore the trolls that abound!

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