Could living near plant nurseries affect my housing priority?

[Aurora1990]

Hi I am currently bidding every Thursday on buckshomexhoice. We are family of six, 4 kids under 10 years old in two bedroom house. We have been living in this house for 11 years. The problem with this house is, I recently got a comment from one of my friends when she visited us and made me really think. The house is located so close between two plant nurseries. They do work all the time from producing soil to companies to plants and so on. She commented that this could be an environmental risk for my kids for childhood cancers. That is terrifying. Can you please give me any advise regarding this. We can’t rent elsewhere as we need a big house and we can’t afford it at the moment. We are just waiting to be housed by the council as we already have a priority band b and bidding but it’s taking so long. Could this be a ground to be moved to and A bcos of where the house is located. Thanks a lot. Any insight will help.

oh come along. That's just silly.

but is it stupid to have more kids than you can afford and expect the local authority to supply approriate housing "because of your religion" ?

The discussion isn’t about religion, but it is undeniable that your circumstances (although I would also agree that it is a choice given the availability of contraception, natural family planning methods and, if absolutely necessary, free access to early medical termination) of having a large family has significantly impacted your ability to provide for those children.

Time after time I have read posts on Mumsnet where a family on a low or even average income is struggling to provide for three or more children, often simply due to the sheer complication of housing them or providing childcare. Add in divorce, illness or another life event and you have real problems.

I was one of three and my parents were clearly stretched beyond what they could provide, despite a SAHP and large age gaps. They seemed exhausted by the time I was in my teens, but still had a whole decade of parenting my younger sibling to get through…

I would also urge anyone having children now to look around at the economy and labour market. Young people are not always ‘leaving home’ in the same way that they used to and I would caution anyone to only have the number of children that they are prepared to house into adulthood.

Be fair, this was obviously a case of immaculate conception!

You lived in a two-bedroomed house and continued having children you can't adequately house. This is on you, not the council.

It's absolutely not 'unnecessary.' Having children is not against any law. Getting on a list for social housing is not against any law.

But many unethical things are perfectly legal.

Having more children than you can afford to house adequately because you have some daft belief about not using contraception is just ethically indefensible.

lol!! 😂
people will try any excuse to be a priority and play the system won’t they?! 😂
no it won’t rush you up the bands or make you housed any quicker.
I say that as someone in social housing, who accepted that I couldn’t cheat the system.

You are already a band B

Where I live, a band A is for emergencies i.e. a mother fleeing domestic violence and even then she and the children will be put in emergency accommodation i.e. a B&B

You chose to rent your home, you chose to become overcrowded in those 11 years.

Don't forget that you and your husband can sleep in the living room, and 2 children can have each of the two bedrooms. sorted.

Try again after a large chardonnay and you won’t be any the wiser.

Can you link a couple of these sites you found OP. There might be posters here can take a look at the reports and say if they apply to the UK.

😁

Are there generally many council properties in the area that come up for bidding on? I know you'll be looking at a 3 bed minimum but how many houses would you say generally become available weekly or monthly? How long have you been on the waiting list? I am familiar with the system as we rented privately for 10 years then the landlord sold the property while we were living in it (so he said) but couldn't complete the sale until we moved out, we were on the homeless list due to circumstances.

Going back to the original question, such an industrial site would probably not get planning permission right next to housing these days, but if it already exists then it’s probably deemed up to the individual occupier to make a decision about it. A bit like living near a major road.

But environmental health might be an option?

@Aurora1990 You say you have Googled. Can you please link to the websites where it says there is an increased risk? There’s a big difference between crank websites promoting insane “health information” and genuine research findings, and some of us here can evaluate them for you.

i wasn’t asking baker cheating the system you’re just too arrogant. I would stop typing if I was you.

If you type on google that’s the first thing that comes up. I wasn’t making things up. You can easily find out.

Wow so to some of the responses. Never thought I would get such responses otherwise I wouldn’t have even posted it first place. Some of you are so judgemental and have no idea about respecting others. Constantly diverting the original question and keep chatting. So shameful really

Ok yeah that made perfect sense 🙄😂

This place is so old. Probably 30 plus years if not 50. I will ask

I’m not suggesting you’re making anything up. I want to see the websites you’ve read so that I can evaluate the information, because I have experience in evaluating research.
It’s no use me doing my own google search. Unless I use the exact same search terms you did, I’ll get different results.

If you type what on Google? What exactly were you searching?

Google gives different results to different users. Can depend on your cookies/history location.

Can't you just link in what site you are reading so folk can check it for you?

If I evaluated websites I wouldn’t be here asking a quick question. I asked bcos I wanted to get opinions and if any has any experiences. Never expected such responses so harsh and shameful most have been.

Is that you Mary?