kerrier council are throwing my family on the streets

new_home_owner_3

Mum_of_3 wrote: »

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

and why do they need a car? if they are staying put, theyre just playing the game, im not saying she was not getting grief from her former boyfriend, but they need to get in the real world.

Wee_Willy_Harris

Mum_of_3 wrote: »

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

Oh. So you can't be homeless with a flashgun?

Wee_Willy_Harris

new_home_owner wrote: »

and why do they need a car? if they are staying put, theyre just playing the game, im not saying she was not getting grief from her former boyfriend, but they need to get in the real world.

They are. The real world of local authorities bypassing their legal duties and shirking their responsibilities.

new_home_owner_3

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

They are. The real world of local authorities bypassing their legal duties and shirking their responsibilities.

So when i take my kids on holiday to sandbanks next week, if i fancy stopping down theyre ill sleep in my car and demand they house me, when they say no ill tell them the wife has been calling me names and has hit me over the head with a frying pan.

Im not saying she should not be housed, but why should she have a choice she decided to go on holiday to cornwall and when she was down theye decided to stay, she should have looked into this with the housing situation before and made better plans.

It was a very silly thing to do, but now she doesnt want to resolve the problem, the best thing for the lady to do is go and live somewhere that houses are available.

Wee_Willy_Harris

new_home_owner wrote: »

So when i take my kids on holiday to sandbanks next week, if i fancy stopping down theyre ill sleep in my car and demand they house me, when they say no ill tell them the wife has been calling me names and has hit me over the head with a frying pan.

The legislation assumes a degree of honesty. If they get it wrong and you were being dishonest, they will rehouse you when they shouldn't. If they get it wrong and you were telling the truth, you may end up dead. That's a hell of a risk to take. So, yes, the legislation states that the standard of proof for those fleeing violence is low.

new_home_owner wrote: »

Im not saying she should not be housed, but why should she have a choice she decided to go on holiday to cornwall and when she was down theye decided to stay, she should have looked into this with the housing situation before and made better plans.

Her post clearly states that the decision to stay was brought about by threats on her life and that of her family.

new_home_owner wrote: »

It was a very silly thing to do, but now she doesnt want to resolve the problem, the best thing for the lady to do is go and live somewhere that houses are available.

She chose Cornwall because of the support offered by her partners family. It's a shame that they don't live in some godforsaken hole in the North, but they don't.

Wee_Willy_Harris

new_home_owner wrote: »

and why do they need a car? if they are staying put, theyre just playing the game, im not saying she was not getting grief from her former boyfriend, but they need to get in the real world.

You can't be homeless if you have a car?

PasturesNew

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

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.

I don't think there are any .... I just had a look, there seems to be one 3-bed place up for bid at the moment.

PasturesNew

new_home_owner wrote: »

So when i take my kids on holiday to sandbanks next week, if i fancy stopping down theyre ill sleep in my car

There is actually a nice big car park at the end of Sandbanks, I checked it out myself a couple of months back ... when I was trying to put together a cunning masterplan ....

Wee_Willy_Harris

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't think there are any .... I just had a look, there seems to be one 3-bed place up for bid at the moment.

Well, looking at their recent lets, there have been 30 2 and 3 bed houses let since the start of June.

https://www.cornwallhomechoice.org.uk/Data/ASPPages/1/56.aspx

PasturesNew

Wee_Willy_Harris wrote: »

Well, looking at their recent lets, there have been 30 2 and 3 bed houses let since the start of June.

https://www.cornwallhomechoice.org.uk/Data/ASPPages/1/56.aspx

That's Cornwall though, he's in Kerrier. I'll go through the list and see how many are in Kerrier. They just have the whole county on the one listing now.