Curtains, Picture Frames and Pot Plants are just some of the items putting pensioners at risk, according to Thurrock Council.

Residents at Rookery Court, in West Thurrock, are furious after receiving a letter from the authority saying all personal belongings in their verandas must go, even the carpets and ornaments on windowsills, because it presents a fire hazard.

Resident Peter Goldsmith, 63, said it has upset everyone there.

He added:

This is smacking us in the face. We feel like we are being treated like schoolchildren or geriatrics, which we are not.

We all know this is about the fire in a London tower block which killed six people, but our verandas are not communal areas.

The council built the verandas 12 years ago so we could sit on them and enjoy them. Now they will be unusable because we can’t have a chair and table, carpet, or even a picture frame on the wall.

As you can imagine the banning picture frames doesn’t sit too well with the PictureFramesExpress team!

Original story Banned! Curtains, picture frames and pot plants put pensioners at risk by the Echo News