The Regulator of Social Housing (RSH) has given Nottingham City Council the second-lowest standards rating for its housing after finding almost 1,000 live repair cases, gaps in safety checks, and tenant disengagement. Council tenants in Eddleston Drive shared stories of damp, mould, rotting wood, and inadequate heating, highlighting years of neglect.
Tenants living in some of Nottingham’s “neglected” council homes have spoken out about their poor living conditions after a regulator said it had found serious problems. The Regulator of Social Housing , the independent body responsible for checking council housing, said it uncovered almost 1,000 live cases of repairs, which have proven a “significant driver of complaints”.
External woodwork is rotting, while his fence is held up by a single piece of wood following repairs conducted by the authority’s housing services. “I’m trying my best to keep this place looking nice, but it feels like I’m wasting my time,” he said. “My house is very cold and I have a child. I’ve had to buy a hot water bottle and an electric blanket.Breda Taylor, 69, who is retired but works two cleaning jobs, said her flat had been “neglected” over the last decade despite now paying upwards of £80 per week in rent. While she has received a new boiler, guttering and solar panels, she says she has been unable to lay carpet in her bedroom due to mould, while her wooden window-frames have been left rotting.
The council has been given a C3 rating. It now manages its housing services itself, after it brought its housing services back under its control in April 2023 from arms-length management organisation Nottingham City Homes.
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