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jools · Joined: 30 Nov 2007 Posts: 32 Location: just outside Aber

Tchambuli9: Your absolutely right about Thatch and the social housing crisis.

What's unforgiveable is that Nu Labour hasn't done anything to help. We are now in the situation where council estates have more private tenants than social and villages are being bought up by landlords and turned into the council estates (no disrespect to council estate tenants - I am from one myself). I think the political term is called social re-engineering. The problem with private landlords is they don't care what problems their tenants cause to neighbours, the council (at least when I was young!) would at least try to sort any prolems.

I heard someone on the news say that when Thatch was recently asked about her greatest achievement she replied "New Labour".

Tchambuli9 · Joined: 03 Apr 2008 Posts: 34 Location: BLAENAU GWENT

I know lots of tenants living in the private sector, including friends and relatives of mine, who are decent folk and keep their rented houses in excellent order and are happy with their landlords who meet their obligations very well. However, like most situations in life there are those who behave responsibly and there are those who do not, be they tenants or landlords.
If you know of anyone who is suffering, as a result of unruly tenants, tell them that a statutory tenancy agreement states that a tenant must not be a nuisance to neighbours. A landlord can evict on those grounds and will probably be glad to do so, because the chances are that his property is suffering, also.
If the landlord is elusive, Environmental Health can track him down. I'm not sure of the terminology of the procedure they can follow, but I know there is one.
As a matter of irony Jools, my parents are having problems with their neighbours regarding noise. They are both elderly and are not enjoying the best of health. Their neighbours are owner occupiers !
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