Companies waive fee to demolish house of horror.
Contractors who will demolish the house where six children perished in a blaze started by their parents are to donate their fees to charity.
Derby Demolition Ltd, John L Morgan & Sons, Maxplant Ltd and Ward Recycling have each agreed to donate their fee for the demolition work to Derbyshire Children’s Holiday Centre in Skegness, which provides disadvantaged local children with holidays in the town.
The work will see 18 Victory Road and neighbouring property number 20 razed to the ground. New social housing is expected to be built on the site in due course.
A spokesman for Derby City Council said that Derby Demolition Ltd would begin to prepare the site with scaffolding, fencing and netting to the front, rear and sides, on Monday.
The process of demolition is likely to take up to three weeks; one week to prepare the site and a further two weeks to take down both properties, beginning with the outbuildings and roofing structures.
Mick Philpott and his wife Mairead were both jailed in April along with friend Paul Mosley after being convicted of killing the couple’s six children by setting fire to the three-bedroomed detached house.
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