MILLBROOK residents are up in arms about the state of their block of flats - urine in communal areas, maggots and broken lifts being among the issues they're left to put up with.
Neighbours at Millbrook Towers on Windermere Avenue say they’re fed up of living in a place "people call a dump".
Some of the issues they face include maggots in bins, people urinating down the stairs and lifts being constantly unusable.
Mo Simmons was recently stranded on the ground floor for over two hours when one of the lifts broke down over the weekend.
The 81-year-old pensioner has a knee replacement and can’t walk up the stairs to her flat on the 20th floor.
She said: “I was stuck downstairs and there was a man that was cleaning who got me a chair so I could sit down. The whole foyer was full up, with people sitting on the floor. I needed to go to the toilet but couldn’t get up here and there was nothing open downstairs.”
There are also reports of people urinating on the stairs which has left residents feeling disgusted.
She said: “People pee down the stairs and it congregates at the bottom of the stairs and the smell of it is atrocious.
“You walk in the door, look round and think 'look at the state of this place'.”
She added: “People are calling Millbrook Towers a dump, I don't want to be living in a block that’s known as a dump, it's not right.”
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Residents have also described bin bags being left on corridors and maggots seen crawling around the place.
After raising these issues with the council, fellow resident Heather Hedges, 84, said she feels ignored.
She said: “Every time you call the council to let them know of this issue. For years I've reported this, but you never hear anything back and you never get a response to the work being done.
“It’s getting worse as time is going by.”
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In response, a Southampton City Council spokesman said: “We received a call out to Millbrook Towers earlier this week and our engineers worked hard to get one of the two lifts working within an hour and a half.
“Foyer areas and lifts are cleaned daily. We rely on residents to report instances of ASB by contacting their Local Housing Office or Neighbourhood Warden in the first instance.”
Engineers were sent out to fix the lifts on Monday morning but on Wednesday one of them was already out of order.
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