Zack Polanski is gambling everything in Holborn and St Pancras
Fifty-three Agar Grove sits at the heart of the north London constituency of Holborn and St Pancras, on a road bridging Camden Town and King’s Cross. Resident Dan Bruce bought a split-level new-build
Photo by Alishia Abodunde/Getty Images Fifty-three Agar Grove sits at the heart of the north London constituency of Holborn and St Pancras, on a road bridging Camden Town and King’s Cross. Resident Dan Bruce bought a split-level new-build property there in 2019 for £850,000. The block and the homes within it are now plagued by damp and mould.
Plaster has fallen from the ceiling or peeled from the walls. Owing to the defects, the property has lost all of its value. Bruce has racked up £500,000 in legal, professional and engineering costs.
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Each morning Bruce wakes up and – for a brief moment – fails to remember the reality he is living in. But then he remembers. Whoever emerges victorious from today’s by-election is sure to find the case of 53 Agar Grove in their inbox.
This race was triggered when Keir Starmer resigned from the seat on 1 September, MPs’ first day back in parliament after their summer leave. Bruce wrote to Keir Starmer 89 times. Starmer responded but the problems remained unsolved.
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