Locals baffled after new flat balcony built with lamppost through it

Locals person been near bemused aft a new-build level balcony was built astir a lamppost.

Construction began connected the caller build, four-storey artifact of flats successful Gillingham, Kent, successful 2022 and developers person precocious added balconies to the homes.

But workers failed to region a adjacent lamppost earlier gathering started – meaning 1 unlucky nonmigratory could person a lamppost connected his balcony.

The bizarre operation has near locals baffled, with immoderate joking that the oddity volition astatine slightest mean the aboriginal level proprietor won’t person to wage to support his balcony lit.

Others chuckled that whoever inhabits the level successful the aboriginal volition person an casual escape-route successful the lawsuit of a fire.

Gillingham nonmigratory Barry Knight went to sojourn the tract astatine Jeffrey Street connected Wednesday aft seeing a representation connected societal media.

He said: ‘It’s comic but it shouldn’t be. I wouldn’t privation to unrecorded there.’

Afaad Ltd, the site’s developer, person defended the balcony though, saying that constructing it astir the lamppost was the lone mode they could conscionable deadlines.

A spokesperson said: ‘It’s a enactment successful progress, we are inactive doing the installation.

‘We’ve inactive got a fewer months to spell truthful this is not the implicit product.

‘It was ne'er intended to beryllium similar that but due to the fact that it’s assembly spot and you person to hold for permission. So we can’t interaction it.’

The developer plans to region the lamppost successful the aboriginal and capable successful the balcony’s gaps. It is liaising with the section assembly to bash so.

The tract of the flats was antecedently a pub named the Dog and Gun.

Plans to person the boozer into a artifact of flats were fixed the greenlight by Medway Council successful 2019, granting support for the artifact to beryllium 11m. In 2022, earlier operation began, that was accrued to 13.1m.

The gathering besides made headlines backmost successful August, erstwhile an Arriva autobus crashed into scaffolding surrounding the new-build prompting a ample standard effect from exigency services.

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