can i appeal council tax - living in horrendous conditions?

olly300

verve wrote: »

thanks everyone for all the help. i've got just about enough information to get me going in the right direction so thank you!

Has anyone in the flats got a child? Is anyone in the flats elderly?

Get the local paper to send a photographer around to take a photo of them near the alleyway entrance.

This sort of thing shames councils and Thames Water into taking action.

Also make sure all your correspondence with every body is in writing sending it via recorded signed for post.

verve

ive tried playing the local papers card... they never replied to me lol

if its not a teenage stabbing its just not good news for them...

mart.vader

OK Verve,

Keep on with the Local papers, but as you know, they won't do a story unless it suits them to do so. i.e. if they think they need a story, and there's nothing else.

As previously advised contact your local councillor, they all have a "surgery" where you can put your problems right in front of them.

Here should be the link for the local councillors and surgery details >>

http://committeepapers.barnet.gov.uk/democracy/council/ward.asp?intSubSectionID=-1&intSectionID=9&wardID=3

(I think you're in the Childs Hill Ward) so its either Susette Palmer MA, Jack Cohen or Monroe Palmer OBE.

Ring up the Environmental Health Officer at Barnet, get his name, tell him what's going on and arrange to meet him to show him the problems.

If it really is SEWAGE, and not just smelly drain water they should attend within a day or so, to find out who is responsible.
Have you had a word with the owners of the KFC etc to tell them that it's not acceptable?

Best of Luck

verve

I have contacted Jack Cohen, and meeting him tonight at the close to show him the state of the place. good timing too after all the rain yesterday...

going to contact the environmental health officer today too.


I'm done talkign to KFC. when i first moved i had to repeatedly tell them and even show them how to put rubbish inside the bins and not on the floor. Unfortunately these degenerates don't actually understand anything you say to them or simply don't care and continue to toss rubbish on the floor. leftover chicken pieces everywhere for foxes and rats to savage on. It got so bad that I had to threaten them one day, and the next day there was kfc rubbish on the floor again. I collected it all into a bin bag, went around the building to the KFC entrance and dumped all the contents on their floor... That got their attention and they do more of an effort now but still not enough.

thanks for the help again!

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