Here is a sentence you don't hear often. Three of the six buildings are coming down.

That's CK Asset's "starter homes" project. Starter homes are the flats meant for first-time buyers. People who saved for years and wanted a front door of their own.

The developer says demolishing and rebuilding three blocks is the most "time-saving" solution. Read that again.

If knocking a building down and starting over is the quick way, the slow way must have been something. Fixing steelwork flat by flat, probably, with an inspector at every step. Nobody wants to wait for that. So the cranes come in instead.

The trouble started with a steelwork scandal, and it has now run for two years. That is a long time to wait on a flat you were told was a starter. By the time anyone gets keys, "starter" will be the wrong word.

Look, I'm glad they're not patching things up and hoping. Nobody wants to live in a block that needed an argument to prove it was safe. But "time-saving" is a funny way to describe a fix that begins with a wrecking ball.

Three blocks stay up. Three come down and go up again. If you know someone in this project, ask them which half they're in.