We are being evicted, some advice please...... the date has arrived......

MummyHol

I think my littlun is getting sick of ME watching lazytown!! I don't think he's too impresseed with my choice of TV shows, haha x

chevalier

Ref the garden, is the place not council owned? If this is the case then surely they have a responsibility to clear the garden?
chev

Careful_with_that_Axe

Shame that it looks like it's a "no" on the house, but it sounds like it isn't really right. The stress of the parking problems etc. will not be what you need once you move!
There will be somewhere that's just right for you. I feel it in my water

ampersand

Any further news, bm?
Was just thinking about you, about to look you up, when you appeared chez mot.
What's your schedule for this week?

blue_monkey_2

Hi A,

No, nothing else of yet. Court is next week, will be relief to have an 'end' in sight tbh. Thought there was going to be a problem with the house sale (something on the HIP) but mum is adamant it is going to be sorted, was worried that we might have to start all over again if she thought court was irrelevant. I really don't think I could start all over. Apparently someone is interested in the house but mum is refusing to budge on the price at he moment (daft but that is her problem!!). So yes, a week today. i feel OK about things, been thinking on the house more and the road situation was so not right for us so we decided to give that a miss. What will be will be. Chev, I don't think they do the gardens tbh, but it was more the situation of the house that was the main problem and that I could not get from the car to the house and leave Ryan in the house. What will be will be, and my husband has actually changed his attitude too in regard to the hostel, i think he has ultimately realised that it has to be right for Ryan more than anything else and this was not.

Not sure on the weather for next Friday but we can find out earlier next week and go from there. Can anyone think of somewhere indoors we could go to??

Great news on the house front for MOT!!

smashedbooboo

Hi babe, hows things, its nearly a week since you have posted on your thread, just checking in to see if your ok hun and am thinking of you. 2 muskateers sorted now we wait for you to be settled. I am slowly getting the house sorted. Managed to get a portable TV and a stereo and a pair of curtains from Freecycle today. Got my oven the other day and a bed sorted out. Busy cleaning now and decorating. I never thought it would work out. But it has. Please stay positive. Sending you millions of hugs x x x

blue_monkey_2

Hi everyone,

Sorry Boo, did not see your message until just now, trying to keep busy this morning. Just had the call from my sister to say they hve set a date of 16th April - 14 days!!

I've just called the homeless department and they are calling me back to give me an appointment to go and see them.

And what happens now? I am not sure, I feel strangely numb, shakey, close to tears, I don't now, even though I was expecting it. I asked Homeless what happens now, and she said she would call me back with an apopoinment when she was available. I've just been told by the homeless department that 'another list is due out' which I know anyway - I was checking today to see if the list had been updated - it hasn't. Tonight will knock off an email to my MP and councillor explaining the situation, bearing in mind they told him they would house us when we had a date for eviction!!

I feel gutted and tearful but cannot let the kids see me upset otherwise they will see all of this as a bad thing and I cannot et that happen for an instant, I was so sure the court would give us the maximum length of time - 56 days - because mum has not even had any interest in the houe. But 14 days feels so.... I don't know, even the council have not seen this as being urgent. I cannot explain. I am off to wallow - already eaten too much food this morning to pass the time and now I feel sick. I need chocolate - there was a good reason for getting rid of it from the house wasn't there!!

I thought I'd let you all know. I just don't feel like I have anything else in me at the moment. So glad that nearly everything is packed.

Edit: Sorry to add. I have worked out that I think that is is shock more than anything else. I was so sure we would get 2 months before having to leave and that this would mean another 4 choiced based houses. I cannot face speaking to anyon on the telephone about it so texted my friends and asked them not to call today, I think I'll be OK once these initial feelings are out of the way. It was the same way I felt when she said she was selling it. Maybe more so that we have this 'official' date.

Oh also, this is mroe relevant. Council told me today that the list comes out on Friday, expressions of interest will close on 9th April she told me that if anything was on the list she would know by the time we had an appointment with her whether had been successfl or not. So this means that she is setting up a date for around 2 weeks time - that is the eviction date we would have been given.

Is there anything else we can do? I think I will mail the MP once I have a meeting date because they have already told him that they will house us when we have a date. I have a copy of all the emails/memos he was sent!!

blue_monkey_2

Ho Hum, 14 days not being urgent or anything...... I am bored, trying to kill time, not in the mood for church tonight but have to go.

2 1/2 hours later and still no call to confirm an appointment to go and see them at the homeless department.

I am sending an email to my MP and counsellor tonight and tell him that they have not bothered calling me back either. I am going to dig out those emails where they have told him they have x amount of time to help and will house us when we havean eviction date.

Of course, they could be ringing around the HA trying to find me a lovely nice big house as we speak Ever the optimist, right?

Ooh, I just wanted to add a little to the end. My children go to a CofE school so learn about God & Jesus nd a few weeks back we was in the kitchen, DD in the front room and I eard her shout 'so that is what God looks like' and I peered round the corner and she was watching.... The Simpsons!! And Jesus was playing on the swings - I am looking forward to the next parents evening after she goes back after Easter and declares she now knows what God looks like..... LOL!!

finnigan

Hi BM, my daughter is in a similar situation to your Ryan, she is more severly disabled (non verbal, not dry, 6 yrs old) but she has no idea of personal safety either. It may be worth asking your gp or health visitor to refer you to the local paed occ health team. the ot should be able to assess Ryans needs and produce a report that spells out his needs regarding housing - sorry if this has been covered, hav'nt read the whole thread and I think dd is about to flood the bathroom again

blue_monkey_2

LOL, thanks F, yes, been to see 3 people so far, got the Special Needs HV calling next week and the week after seing a different paediatrician at the local hospital, still waiting for the social workers to visit and also for CAMHS. I get confused by there being so many people to speak to and deal with now. I am going to speak to the HV this week when she calls, I think her seeing us in the home will be better for me to explain what I have for him now.

The thing is, I have it in an email to the MP that they were literally waiting until we had a date to try and get us housed around here but if we get an eviction date and nothing comes up before then we will be dealt with by the Homeless Legislation but we still have to wait 2 weeks to see them? And by then it'll be time for getting out? I told them about this 3 weeks ago so why did they not book an appointment back then to see me the day after the court date? My head is spinning thinking about it. The only thing I can think about is that they are waiting to see if the CBL list comes out to see if there is anything suitable and if sothen they do not have to deal with us. Kind of like putting us off but how can they house us with 2 days to go? I am just confused by everything now. How they expect us to have any sort of life, we cannot even plan for a weekend incase something comes up and we have to move.