Council housing policy - is this right?

Widelats

morrit wrote: »

Working in Environmental Health myself, we deal with cockroach infestations on a daily basis. Unless you are DIRECTLY affected healthwise from the cockroaches then there is no reason why you should not be placed in the premesis as long as they are being treated. Cockroaches are common place and if your council are dealing with them then that's perfectly acceptable.

You will have to prove that there are health problems arising from the infestation. If you want to take action against the Council for the infestation you could look at section 82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 specifically mentioning sect 79 1(a) premesis kept in such a state as to be prejudicial to health... but being that the defence would be best practicable means (ie they are dealign with it and with nothing short of making umpteen people homeless for a week so they can gas the place which may not be succesful) it wouldn't go very far in court.

Personally if the Council are treating them then I wouldn't worry... Would you not move into a house if you knew that there was about 6 families of rats nearby? Then run away. the key lesson is what you don't know wont harm you.

Thanks for the advice, appreciated.

voiceofreason

If you know so much about them, how come you've not yet been able to get rid of them?

Widelats

voiceofreason wrote: »

If you know so much about them, how come you've not yet been able to get rid of them?

I don't know why, the powder doesn't do the trick, they keep coming back.

dmg24

morrit wrote: »

Working in Environmental Health myself, we deal with cockroach infestations on a daily basis. Unless you are DIRECTLY affected healthwise from the cockroaches then there is no reason why you should not be placed in the premesis as long as they are being treated. Cockroaches are common place and if your council are dealing with them then that's perfectly acceptable.

You will have to prove that there are health problems arising from the infestation. If you want to take action against the Council for the infestation you could look at section 82 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 specifically mentioning sect 79 1(a) premesis kept in such a state as to be prejudicial to health... but being that the defence would be best practicable means (ie they are dealign with it and with nothing short of making umpteen people homeless for a week so they can gas the place which may not be succesful) it wouldn't go very far in court.

Personally if the Council are treating them then I wouldn't worry... Would you not move into a house if you knew that there was about 6 families of rats nearby? Then run away. the key lesson is what you don't know wont harm you.

Looks like CAB are wrong then!

cleo1299

Widelats wrote: »

What i am concerned about is when i move the environmental health told me not to take any of the furniture with me as there is a high risk of re-infestation in my new property if even 1 roach is hiding in the chair or cooker, etc, i have already thrown out my carpets and some clothes and my bed is going next.

That seems a little drastic. If you're moving into another council flat, there could already be roaches there anyway. And if so, you won't be able to argue you should be moved again, because you won't be able to prove you didn't bring the roaches with you. So you could end up in a different flat, with no belongings, still with roaches but no prospect of a move. It hardly seems worth it.

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