Are the council responsible for their tenants?

Browntoa

If there are water meters and someone's tinkered with it so it does not work

londonTiger

the council will turf someone out if they are causing ASB and have enough complaints from surrounding residents, but if they have young children then turfing them out will be a difficult. Hence why so many social security for life tenants breed like rabbits. It makes it easy for them to get a council house and once they got one it's really hard for them to be evicted.

In the end the only solution is for the council to just move these problem tenants into a place like hull with entire community of benefits claimants, they can runi riot against each other - keeps the problem away from working families.

trukdiver

Browntoa wrote: »

If there are water meters and someone's tinkered with it so it does not work

Would they care? I had a leaking pipe and the internal stop !!!! wouldn't close completely. I asked the water company to turn it off outside. They said they weren't allowed to cut people's water off - it was against the law as it would cause hardship...

maninthestreet

trukdiver wrote: »

Would they care? I had a leaking pipe and the internal stop !!!! wouldn't close completely. I asked the water company to turn it off outside. They said they weren't allowed to cut people's water off - it was against the law as it would cause hardship...

Of course they would - 'tinkering with the meter' and turning off the stop c-o-c-k at the meter are not the same thing.

Blackpool_Saver

or if they are on a low rate water bill arrangement

pulliptears

geerex wrote: »

Well, if you didn't know what chav stood for before, you certainly do now - council house and violent ...

Or more correctly it's a derivative of the Romany word 'chavi' meaning child or young person.

pimento

Johno100 wrote: »

Why would the water company be interested?

Because unless you're on a water meter, filling a pool is verboten in most places.

Johno100

pimento wrote: »

Because unless you're on a water meter, filling a pool is verboten in most places.

Is it? Perhaps if you live in Southern California, but not in most (if any) of the UK at present.

http://www.hosepipeban.org.uk/2015/04/22/little-chance-of-hosepipe-ban-in-2015/

anna42hmr

Johno100 wrote: »

Is it? Perhaps if you live in Southern California, but not in most (if any) of the UK at present.

http://www.hosepipeban.org.uk/2015/04/22/little-chance-of-hosepipe-ban-in-2015/

Some water companies (for example seven trent, anglian water), will insist that people with "pools" and "sprinklers" though go onto a meter, so if they are unmetered and using these facilities the water company would/may want to know and if they are put on a meter, they may be less likely to fill up the pool again, or at least less often.

Johno100

anna42hmr wrote: »

Some water companies (for example seven trent, anglian water), will insist that people with "pools" and "sprinklers" though go onto a meter, so if they are unmetered and using these facilities the water company would/may want to know and if they are put on a meter, they may be less likely to fill up the pool again, or at least less often.

Have you got a link for that?