kerrier council are throwing my family on the streets

Wee_Willy_Harris

squinty wrote: »

On 14th July one of your first posts in this thread said




Yet by today your advice has changed to



(the bold has been added)

There has been no addtional information provided by the OP in the interim.

What has happened in the interim to cause this change?

My first post explained the decision reached by the LA, the provision of temp, the appeal routes open to her and went through the options available as well as giving some idea of the information they may be looking for. I advised what other assistance/priority the LA may give her to secure social housing and highlighted the need to be realistic with her areas of choice. I also expressed concern at the time taken for her housing issue to be resolved and, rightly, questioned her own actions.

The second post you quote is the legal position and how LAs deal with homeless applications.In previous posts I have also clearly indicated the negative side of homelessness as a route to re-housing.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Lance wrote: »

So you have fully investigated this matter and seen council records have you? You have consulted friends / relations of topic starter have you? You were present at the council / social services interviews were you? You know the topic starter personally or at least interviewed her have you? You suggest the council workers are uncaring and allege they have breached the law on what 'evidence' exactly?

You should be a judge Wee Willy....... "No need for a trial, I have read what the victim has to say on MSE and the accused is obviously guilty!" You'd save us a fortune on lawyers fees. Prisons a bit full of innocent men though!

All the info we have to go on is the OP's own. I have applied what we know from that to the legislation. Only the OP will know how applicable it is. I have made no assumptions, just taken her posts at face value.

Bonny1

Did the OP find a house?

dmg24

Something does not make sense here - the OP says she moved in October, but apparently married in Cornwall much earlier in the year. The number of children she has also varies between posts. Call me dubious, but I would say that there is more to this than the OP is letting on ...

Wee_Willy_Harris

dmg24 wrote: »

Something does not make sense here - the OP says she moved in October, but apparently married in Cornwall much earlier in the year. The number of children she has also varies between posts. Call me dubious, but I would say that there is more to this than the OP is letting on ...

That may, or may not, be true. We can only base anything we state on the info provided. As always on here, if that info is wrong, so will any advice issued against it.

Mum_of_3_3

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

As I have already posted, that is one option open to her. But the question of a homeless accept is not dependant on the availability of social housing. You either are homeless, in accordance with Part 7 on the 1996 housing act, or you are not.

I don't think you get what I mean. How do Kerrier giver her a property, if they have no empty ones? What do they do kick an exisiting tenant out just to house her? Do they build one? Or do they give her a deposit do that she can find a private let?

Of course they do what they did and acknowledge her homelessness, offer her a deposit so that OP can start to build a home for her and her family rather than live in temporary accommodation.

OP seems to have turned down the deposit and going out and finding a house for her and her kids in favour of waiting for someone else to do what she should've done back in October and then whinge about it nearly 10 months later!

Also, lets say that a property does become empty, what's to say there aren't lots of other DV cases waiting to be housed in front of her?

M_o_3

Mum_of_3_3

Why did OP post on 10/07/10:

" hi there i was wondering if anyone knows where i can get a flashgun for a fuji s3 pro as cheap as possible would be great.
thanks for lookin"
then again a while later:

"hi ya thanks for your reply
i am looking at buying a Nikon speedlight SB 80DX
THANKS"

Here's a link to both things the OP was referring to camera speedlight

If I owned a camera that expensive and yet had nowhere for my children to call home, it would be straight on eBay and used as a deposit for a home. The thing I definitely wouldn't be doing is spending some of my hard earned dole money on a £150 flash for the bloomin' thing!

M_o_3

PS Link to thread https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/2586979

hermum

Maybe they discharged a duty to her as after offering a deposit on a private let she didn't find anything she fancied, sorry that suited her. The LA should foot the bill indefinitely for someone to take a holiday in Cornwall?
On another thread people will be up in arms at how much temp accommodation is costing.
The council offered her a solution, she chose not to take it.
Maybe last year when the OP tossed the I fancy moving to Cornwall post out there, instead of spending time comping she should have found out the right way to try & go about it. She posted once on that subject, was given some advice & nothing more until she's hard done by as she's no longer being funded in a B&B
She only said early last year that the ex was making her life stressfull, not that he was or had been violent. Until Oct, when he had a fight with the male housesitter, we don't know what the fight was over, or what did or didn't get said in the heat of the moment.
I am aware that comping may be her way of coping with an unpleasant situation but if I were concerned for the life & wellbeing of my family I wouldn't be faffing around killing time, crossing my fingers that's all that was killed.
Also why would anyone fleeing from one part of the country to another then use what I assume to be their name in an open forum.
I have asked this before but no takers, as after all it's all down to the the big bad LA's.
I wonder where she'll want to go when this relationship goes belly up? She was only housed in Surrey months before wanting to flee.

Running_Horse

I agree with you but think we are simply talking in circles at each other.

Maybe she found something, maybe she went home, maybe they housed her.

The one thing no one can claim is she has not been given any advice or help.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Mum_of_3 wrote: »

I don't think you get what I mean. How do Kerrier giver her a property, if they have no empty ones? What do they do kick an exisiting tenant out just to house her? Do they build one? Or do they give her a deposit do that she can find a private let?

Of course they do what they did and acknowledge her homelessness, offer her a deposit so that OP can start to build a home for her and her family rather than live in temporary accommodation.

OP seems to have turned down the deposit and going out and finding a house for her and her kids in favour of waiting for someone else to do what she should've done back in October and then whinge about it nearly 10 months later!

Also, lets say that a property does become empty, what's to say there aren't lots of other DV cases waiting to be housed in front of her?

M_o_3

The 1996 Housing Act is quite clear about how a local authority can discharge its duty to house. Chucking her the promise of a deposit and telling her to get on with it isn't one of them. They could, for example, give her priority to bid on any one of the number of local authority houses available via their CBL system.

The shortage of available properties is a problem for Cornwall County Council, not an excuse for them to bypass their legal duties.