Where's the thread about buying 9th floor council flat

theartfullodger

Wasn't there a thread about buying a 9th floor council flat?? Something about he'd been there 22 years & a £104k RtB bung?

Anyone else remember it - or remember anything else about it? Or has my mind gone (again...).

Cheers!

Lioness_Twinkletoes

Yes, there was. OP couldn't get a mortgage and wasn't living at the property full time. Was told to run for the hills. Obviously they did run for the hills and took the thread with them.

theartfullodger

Thanks Celifein:

The cache is missing my last post which was what Hackney are doing to crack down on both RtB fraud & fraudulent/unauthorised tenancies...
http://news.hackney.gov.uk/cracking-down-on-tenancy-and-right-to-buy-fraud

Cracking down on tenancy and Right to Buy fraud

Channel 4’s Dispatches series has investigated Right to Buy recently, and although they didn’t film in Hackney, we have investigated and cancelled nine fraudulent Right to Buy applications in the borough since last April.

A total of 78 fraudulent or otherwise unauthorised tenancies have also been cancelled since April, including through succession, and the properties given instead to one of the 2,300 households on the Council’s waiting list.

In the 2014/15 financial year, 135 homes were recovered from improper use in Hackney, more than double the London average of 55, and more than 20 times the average in England, of seven.

Since 2010, a total of 591 homes have been recovered and given to families on the waiting list in this way.

Including housing associations, across Hackney there are also 387 current investigations.

I hope that provides a glimpse of Hackney Council’s commitment to stopping tenancy fraud, as well as fraudulent Right to Buy applications, and to ensuring that social housing in the borough goes to those most in need.

If you know of any properties that you suspect are being used fraudulently, please let us know on 0800 3286340 or at housingfraud@hackney.gov.uk

Cllr Philip Glanville

Cabinet Member for Housing

Nor my mention that my son was married in the Town Hall earlier this year & lives in the Borough...

Cheers all!

AdrianC

The OP removed all their posts, then the thread itself disappeared - I had a reply notification email, which returned an invalid link message.

hanb

I was looking for that too!


Clearly when they said they weren't doing anything wrong they didn't believe it themselves!

Dan-Dan

damn, i lost loads of thanks on that thread!

Upsidedown_Bear

Dan-Dan wrote: »

damn, i lost loads of thanks on that thread!

If posts are deleted you don't lose any thanks you got :beer:

marksoton

I don't think we'll be seeing that individual posting again....

hanb

Shame the thread has gone though, I can't imagine they're the only person that could do with the advice that was received!!