The UK artist Tracey Emin is going through a hefty £160,000 invoice to repair the cladding on Margate’s Arlington Home tower block the place she owns 4 flats.
Leaseholders within the landmark Brutalist constructing have been informed they need to pay £40,000 per property after structural defects had been discovered by the UK authorities’s constructing security regulator.
Arlington Home was constructed within the British seaside city in 1963 and is made up of 142 flats. Emin is offended, although, saying in an announcement to the council: “My query is, why, when I’ve solely owned my flats for 4 years or much less, am I being held answerable for years and years of neglect by [Arlington owner] Freshwater?” (Freshwater was contacted for remark.)
Emin might not be the one well-known Arlington householder pressured to dig deep: the British Museum director Nicholas Cullinan has a pad on the 14th ground of the tower block that’s lined with mirrored panels. These sea views appear to come back with a hefty premium!
