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Local authority house making neighbours lives a misery!
12:02 AM, 19th October 2023, 2 years ago
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Hello, I manage a flat in a small, pleasant residential block where a neighbouring flat has been bought by the Local Authority and used to house their most problematic tenants.
The first tenancy was to a single man who had a prohibition order for him to keep away from the neighbouring town so the council in their wisdom felt he would be fine here. His tenancy was a roller coaster of drug and alcohol-related incidents causing regular disturbances to his neighbours and with no regard for anyone around him.
People visiting all hours day and night, bloodbaths and episodes of drug-induced goings on in the car park. When that tenant passed away a similar individual was then housed. Repeat all of the above for several months. Enough is enough!
The council are useless and uninterested in the views of the neighbours who are having their own lives made a misery by one person’s activities and lack of social awareness or consideration mainly due to his drug addiction.
The council are now hiding behind the excuse that they can’t do anything because the tenant was put there under an arrangement by Shelter.
Has anyone else experienced similar or heard of Shelter actually putting a tenancy in place in a Local authority-owned property? I feel this is just a cop-out and the council need to take responsibility – there are many people on the housing list who could happily integrate into the area.
Moving for the other neighbours is not an option and why should they? One rotten apple in the barrel is making other people’s lives a misery. Have other readers had a similar experience and what’s the answer?
Any advice would be greatly appreciated,
Nikki
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10:33 AM, 19th October 2023, About 2 years ago
118, there appears to be a post-reply confirmation error; ‘this site can’t be reached’.
Or is it just me?
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10:46 AM, 19th October 2023, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Neilt at 19/10/2023 – 10:33
I also had this same problem yesterday, definitely something not working correctly with the P118 computer system.
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10:49 AM, 19th October 2023, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Robert M at 19/10/2023 – 10:46
Massive traffic we have upgraded to 16 servers
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11:16 AM, 19th October 2023, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Robert M at 19/10/2023 – 10:46
Neil on the case quicker than we all know.
You can’t have great things in life without something going wrong.
My house is great place to live.
It’s like a NASA spaceship flying to Mars. Magical. But always something going wrong.
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11:24 AM, 19th October 2023, About 2 years ago
You might start by seeing if there is anything in the lease that can be used to persuade the council to address the problem.
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11:26 AM, 19th October 2023, About 2 years ago
Still unable to confirm my subscription to this and three other topics from yesterday.
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12:43 PM, 19th October 2023, About 2 years ago
Reply to the comment left by Robert M at 19/10/2023 – 10:46
Me too, same problem.
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2:09 PM, 19th October 2023, About 2 years ago
Every Local Authority has an ASBO Officer.
Report to them in writing.
Also make an official complaint to Shelter as they are the tenant and are sub-letting and report that their sub-tenant is causing a nuisance to neighbours, is exhibiting anti-social behaviours that are intolerable and committing various Misuse of Drugs offences and will be reported to the Police.
Also make an official complaint to the Freeholder of the block stating that under their obligations they need to act as a matter of urgency.
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9:54 PM, 19th October 2023, About 2 years ago
Sorry it has to be you, but presumably such tenants have to live somewhere? They clearly have issues and the question, then, should not be “why next to me?” but rather, “why is the council not managing these tenants properly?”
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8:12 AM, 21st October 2023, About 2 years ago
Testing links again