It was completely unsupported, the builder was removing the chimney breast from the ground floor up and hadn't bothered to put in any temporary supports for the stack.
It's on the LABC website, and this is how it was described:
'One of our officers recently visited a site for unauthorised work after a phone call from concerned neighbours who could hear a cracking sound.
On arrival the completely unsupported chimney breast was being removed from the ground floor up through into the roof space and was already showing signs of severe stress. He instructed the ‘builder’ to get out of the property whilst trying to secure a structural engineer to design a solution.
The clip serves as a visual reminder of the significance of getting it wrong!
Fortunately everyone was out of the building but unfortunately too late to arrive at a solution to save the chimney.'
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