Residents in £900-a-month 'luxury' Salford apartments say they're living in rat-infested 'squalor'

Residents living in a block of apartments in Salford where rent is as high as £970 say they are living in ‘squalor’. Tenants in the Richmond Hill apartments say the building has become rat infested, unsafe and unkempt.

Now, ‘frustrated and fed up’, residents have hit out at landlord Irwell Valley Homes for failing to address their concerns about the state of the building over the past few years.

The housing firm say they are working on an ‘improvement plan’ in a bid to make Richmond Hill a ‘decent place’ to live. The Manchester Evening News has visited the apartment block which is located on St Stephen Street near the busy Chapel Street and links Salford to Manchester city centre.

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During the visits residents raised a large number of problems they have encountered including a ‘disgusting’ bin room which they say has created a vermin problem and a lack of security which has seen theft, trespassing and tenants having their car windows smashed. They also raised concerns regarding the general upkeep and cleanliness of the building which has seen some people come home to mouldy corridors, leaky roofs, graffiti, ‘filthy’ windows, carcasses of dead animals left for weeks and damaged flag paving.

Robyn Khan is a solicitor and has lived in Richmond Hill for two years. The 30-year-old who lives on a top floor flat in the building says she feels doesn’t feel safe due to the lack of security.

She told the MEN how the front door of the building is often broken and how the car park is easily accessible. According to Robyn there have been multiple instances where young people and strangers have made their way in, in some cases people have