Significant fire safety defects mean residents of City Garden Apartments on Albert St need to evacuate on short notice.
Auckland Council has issued a Dangerous Building Notice for the building.
Residents were told on 12 April that they needed to leave by 22 April, in a notice posted on the window at the entrance of the building.
Also posted is a letter to the apartment’s body corporate from Fire and Emergency dated 21 August 2023. It outlines a series of major safety concerns it has about the building.
In the letter, FENZ said the building had not had a warrant of fitness since 2017, that it was unclear whether the building’s fire alarms could reliably alert occupants to a fire, or that residents could reliably find the escape routes due to the condition of the signage.
It also said the escape routes did not offer protection to anyone using them from a possible fire, and that it was unclear whether they could deliver water to the upper levels of the building in the event of a fire.