Chief with a £1.5m 7-bedroom villa...
L&Q pays its chief executive £340,790 a year despite tenants complaining of squalid conditions and reports criticising a litany of failings at the trust.
Fiona Fletcher-Smith was handed the top job in January 2021 and later that year splashed out £1.5million on a seven-bedroom Victorian villa in south London.
By contrast, Annika Matthias, 44, who lives in a two-bedroom flat in a block owned by L&Q in southwest London with her three children, has been battling for months to get help with mould spreading through the hallway.
‘When I get back from work, you can see the black spots have spread even further,’ she said yesterday. ‘It’s disgusting.’
Earlier this month her GP wrote a letter saying she believed the property’s ‘severe mould problem’ was now ‘critical’ for both the mental and physical health of Miss Matthias and her children.
But despite forwarding the note to L&Q staff, the part-time child support worker, who is paying £400 a month to house herself and children Kyanna, 22, Teja, 17, and Kahmall, eight, says she feels ignored.
Miss Fletcher-Smith said the firm took its ‘responsibilities to residents seriously’ and had a programme to tackle ‘the root causes of damp and mould’.