I am wondering if anyone has ever used a note from the GP to help resolve housing issues, particularly with a view to moving out of one property and into another?
I have posted many times before about the state of my house as a result of damp and mould. Despite numerous complaints to the HA and a complaint and subsequent visit from Environmental Health, still the HA have done nothing about the damp and mould growing all over the place.
To give a brief outline:
There are large black mould patches all over the outside wall in DD's bedroom which are so extreme that DD now sleeps in bed with DH and I.
There are the same patches in kitchen cupboards and on an interior wall where the air vent is situated. The plaster is crumbling away from the walls and where the ceiling joins the wall.
There is mould growing on the insides of my bedroom curtains, despite the exterior wall of my room being "damp proofed" about 3 years ago .
Other reported faults include plug sockets in the kitchen which have become so wet with damp that the whole electric supply to the place was knocked out. An engineer came out, took the plate off of the socket, taped the wires up and left it and a double socket plate that is hanging off the wall in the living room.
The HA installed a brand new boiler in my living room (don't ask, long story!) and left the pipes exposed, claiming no responsibility for them. I wouldn't have a massive problem with this only I have 2 DC's, one of which is about to start crawling.
Myself and DD are diagnosed asthmatics although suffer varying degrees of the condition. DS has been hospitalised twice in the last month, initially with bronchiolitis and secondly with respiratory failure and we have been told it is pretty much a given, that given the damage to his lungs from these illnesses he has had, he too will be asthmatic. DD is 5 and DS is 8mo.
I am wondering whether it is worth going to the GP to ask for a letter of some description to help us in our fight for someone to take action. Now we are all sleeping in one bedroom, coughs and colds are being passed all over the place. DS has another chest infection, despite being let out of hospital not three weeks ago.
Nobody is taking us seriously and I am concerned for the health and well being of my family. The GP has prescribed AD's for me as the situation is upsetting me sooo much. A friend came round for the first time today and without meaning to offend, the first words out of her mouth referred to the "stink of damp" as soon as she walked through the door.