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  • clutton_2
    clutton_2 Posts: 11,149 Forumite
    so are SS talking to Housing to see if you can be allocated a better place ?
  • silvercar
    silvercar Posts: 49,685 Ambassador
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    I must be missing something here.

    You are in a private rental that you consider is unsuitable and that social services agree is unsuitable. Presumeably you are on an AST or a periodic AST, so you would give notice to your landlord that you intend to leave (generally 1 month notice on a periodic AST to end at the end of a rent period). At the same time you look for a home that meets your needs and apply to rent it.

    This means either finding a private let or applying to a council list or housing association. Of course on a council list you will be prioritised according to need. I would expect you to come below the homeless but above those suitably housed. So a private let would be quicker.
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  • OK, there is no law as far as I am aware that will specifically address your concerns, but there are a number of laws which may help in various related ways.

    To be honest, to explore your options thoroughly you probably need specific advice. Shelter can help you on accomodation options. CAB probably can too. Your social worker team should be able to provide advice, as should the private sector rental team and the council housing office. I would imagine that there are various disability charities that also run advice lines.

    I'm not sure you can do that much to force your current LL to adjust the fabric of the building for you, although I don't know if the disability discrimination act has something to say about that. But you can probably get some kind of priority for specialist council housing and you might be able to access grants for access improvements too.
  • foxxymynx
    foxxymynx Posts: 1,270 Forumite
    edited 11 September 2009 at 6:26PM
    sorry - it's seems to all be a bit blown out of context here.

    As it happens, social services, shelter and various other places are trying to help get us rehomed with the council or housing association, but that's (almost) besides the point, as that's not the issue. Though we are having trouble with the council who have decied that they'd rather ignore the whole situation - 5 months after applying for priority status and no indication of priority status is sight. With regards to staying here though, it's not something that we wish to do or have wished to do for quite some time as the landlord...well, let's just say we've had alot of trouble with him on various parts and we don't wish to stay here longer than we have to.

    There was a list, somewhere, that I read, about what your rights are when you live somewhere and those rights included things like accessing a WC and bathroom and being able to access a kitchen etc, that they were things that were expected and under whatever rights. I'm unsure where I read it and can't find it and I was hoping that someone would know where to look. The shelter site is a bit of a minefield. I'm faily sure it was something with regards to disability and housing rights or disability, housing and human rights, somethimg along those lines? Come to think of it, it may also come under a section of homelessness where you do, in reality, have a physical abode, just it's very unsuitable.

    It's just that documentation that I'm looking for. I know it exists because I've read it and quoted it etc etc, I just can't for the life of me remember where it was.

    Sounds a little weird I know *blush*
    If my typing is pants or I seem partcuarly blunt, please excuse me, it physically hurts to type. :wall: If I seem a bit random and don't make a lot of sense, it may have something to do with the voice recognition software that I'm using!
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