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Original poster

This is insane

97 replies

horsesforcourses1 · 27/03/2012 19:42

I just heard that a friend of a friends DD has just got a brand new 3 bedroomed council house, she?s single, no children and 20 years old !!!!

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LaurieFairyCake · 27/03/2012 19:57

Well there you go Hmm it's in Peterborough

At no point in my life am I going to be envious of people getting a house in Peterborough Hmm Grin

LST · 27/03/2012 19:58

That's complete shite Grin

JustHecate · 27/03/2012 19:59

My single, childless niece got a council flat.

she went on the list, like anyone is entitled to do, she got offered one.

People have this idea that you can only get council housing if you are poor or have children or whatever. Truth is, anyone can go on the list and anyone is entitled to be in council accommodation, it's just that the shortage means that mostly, you have to have umptymillion points to get to the top of the list.

But clearly not always.

But one thing they don't do, is offer a person on their own family accommodation! one person in 3 bed accommodation? Someone has screwed up somewhere.

ComposHat · 27/03/2012 20:00

Perhaps the op's mate needs the two spare rooms, one to squeeze the 40" plasma in and another for the goat.

OriginalJamie · 27/03/2012 20:03

Ah well, it's Peterborough. That'll explain it

PurpleRomanesco · 27/03/2012 20:04

Beeehhhh.

usualsuspect · 27/03/2012 20:04

A single person would be offered a one bedroomed flat

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horsesforcourses1 · 27/03/2012 20:07

I wonder if you all would say the same thing if a family you knew lost their jobs and home and had to live in a bedsit while a 20 year old lives in a 3 bedroomed property paid for with our TAXES !!!!!

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AmberLeaf · 27/03/2012 20:11

they do build new ones, if op means Housing association, which is what local authority properties are called

No they arent, housing associations are nothing to do with local authorities,. they are two different things.

thepeoplesprincess · 27/03/2012 20:11

Is she working?

Original poster
horsesforcourses1 · 27/03/2012 20:13

No

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MrsMicawber · 27/03/2012 20:16

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Yeahthatsnotgonnahappen · 27/03/2012 20:17

Not with our TAXES?!? Dear lord what will we do??

Birdsgottafly · 27/03/2012 20:19

It will be a hard to let area.

I live in Liverpool, plenty of single people get three beds with gardens.

There are houses boarded up all around me for £74 a week, all with new kitchens and bathrooms etc.

What are they supposed to do, leave them empty?

That was a big problem in the early 1980's, nothing but boarded up estates and no money coming in to do repairs on the tenanted properties (knows this is a simplified explaination).

WandaDoff · 27/03/2012 20:22

Bullshit.

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horsesforcourses1 · 27/03/2012 20:23

No wonder this country is broke.

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WandaDoff · 27/03/2012 20:24

Not you Birds.

HillyWallaby · 27/03/2012 20:25

Why have they bothered putting new kitchens and bathrooms in just to board them all up? Are there no families in need of homes in Liverpool? Confused

Birdsgottafly · 27/03/2012 20:38

Why have they bothered putting new kitchens and bathrooms in just to board them all up

The money came from EU funding, to bring homes in disadvantaged areas up to a certain standard. We had new waals around the garden and wrought iron gates.

The problem is that estates go down hill and ironically enough only those on HB can afford to move.

My estate has improved a lot in the last 18 months. There are newly built bungalows with landscaped gardens, but the residents all got terrorised out, they were on the edge of a local park, so the police had no way of keeping the abuse under control.

An initiative is to allow people without children to rent the houses, mostly working, or disabled, though, to break up the amount of families and improve the quality of tenents. They had to knock down houses to move people out to stop the anti-social behaviour.

There isn't a housing shortage in a lot of places, only a shortage of affordable housing.

MissBeehivingUnderTheMistletoe · 27/03/2012 20:38

Not completely up to date but 1110 based on 2011 3 bed properties and numbers of applications she wouldn't have been sucessful unless she was in bands 1 or 2

I suppose that hse could have been on an emergency card, in which case, there would be circustamces that you aren't aware of.

Birdsgottafly · 27/03/2012 20:39

My children don't have to goto schools in the area and i have a good work/life balance, otherwise i wouldn't stay.

ABatInBunkFive · 27/03/2012 20:43

Complain to the council if you feel so aggrieved, i bet they'd soon explain how their system works.

KateSpade · 27/03/2012 20:57

Yeah, i can believe it. I've heard of it many times before & i live nowhere near Peterborough...

tethersend · 27/03/2012 21:22

Burn it down.

Sidalee7 · 27/03/2012 21:28

Oh the old "its my taxes that pay for it"

You have to be earning at least 25k a year to even BREAK EVEN the services your taxes pay for.