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A 'resentful' Kensington resident has said she would move out if survivors of the Grenfell Tower blaze were rehoused in her billionaire private block.

The woman, called Donna, complained to LBC host Shelagh Fogarty that if people made homeless in the deadly blaze were rehoused in her luxury building it would be "very unfair".

In the radio interview, Donna said her £15,500 service charge bill was so high it was like paying rent - complaining the 250 people who lost their homes in the fire would be 'getting it for free'.

The shocking statement comes after 68 social housing flats in the £2billion Kensington Row development have been acquired to house families.

She said: "I would feel really resentful if someone got the same thing for free. I feel sorry for those people but my husband and I work very hard to be able to afford this.

"And for someone to get it free, I would move."

Fogarty replied in disbelief: "You'd move?"

Donna went on: "Our council tax bill is very, very high, our service charge bill is very, very high, so why should someone get it for free?

"I know it sounds harsh believe me I feel sorry for those people but I work very, very hard and so does my husband."

Fogarty hit back: “It does sound harsh, you sound hard-hearted.”

She told her: “Lucky you that you've got that money and you haven't been burned out of your home.”

Donna replied: "Nobody gives me anything for free, Shelagh."

Several Kensington Rise residents recently caused outrage by branding the move "unfair".

Current residents are said to be 'angry' that the Grenfell victims haven't 'worked hard for it'.

Maria, who bought her flat two years ago told the Guardian: "We paid a lot of money to live here, and we worked hard for it.

"Now these people are going to come along, and they won't even be paying the service charge."

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One man also told the paper : “I’m very sad that people have lost their homes, but there are a lot of people here who have bought flats and will now see the values drop.

“It will degrade things. And it opens up a can of worms in the housing market.”

Other uncharitable residents have said families, many of whom lost everything in the fire, will use it as a money-making exercise and just rent them out on the private market.

Nick, who lives in a one-bed flat in the complex, said: "Who are the real tenants of Grenfell Tower? It seems as though a lot of flats there were sublet."

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The comments were branded “horrendous” and lacking “humanity” on Twitter.

User Julie Carpenter said: "Personally, I'd rather have the man who carried his neighbour down eleven flights of stairs that night living next to me than this woman."

While Adrian Houghton said: "Everyone assumes that these people don't work, some must - and what if they work hard? Does a banker on £100k work harder than a builder on £40k?"

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The properties that have been acquired are a mixture of one, two and three-bedroom flats, and the new accommodation is expected to be completed by the end of July.

Two bedroom flats are currently being advertised for up to £2.4 million, but it is understood the City of London Corporation paid around £10 million for some of the flats thanks to an “extraordinary gesture” of goodwill by developer St Edward in selling the properties at their cost price.

The deal was brokered by the Homes and Communities Agency on behalf of the Government.

Those living in the tower are understood to have been given hotel accommodation in the meantime.