Lynne
Just taken a look at today's Gazette and the property available for rent. I've looked for one bed or smaller. This is what I found. Dawlish; 1 bed part furnished cottage. £565 per month Dawlish: 1 bed flat. £450 per month. No DSS/Smokers/Pets Teignmouth: Studio flat. £320 per month. No DSS/Smokers/Pets Teignmouth: Unfurnished bedsitting room. £340 per month. No DSS/Smokers/Pets
Well, I'll try. There is also another financial aspect to all this moving around of tenants which I've referred to before in earlier postings and which is this. Not only are private sector rents (market rents) higher than those in the social housing sector (as B'nut points out above) but within the social sector itself there is a variation between 'affordable rents' which are 80% of the ...
thought this report presented to TDC's Scrutiny & Overview Committee on 15-1-13 might be of interest to some (whether presently social housing tenants or possibly becoming so sometime in the future). http://www.teignbridge.gov.uk/CHttpHandler.ashx?id=36386&p=0 (Note that it says children of the same sex are expected to share a bedroom until they are 21 years of age. The report ...
http://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/stop-the-bedroom-tax-3
Anyone else agree with Wriggler that this benefit cut (for that is what it is) is a good thing?
P'raps you should send that link to our MP and suggest she tries doing the same as Helen Goodman!
"nobody seems to care unless it affects them, bit like the Government really". I'm tempted to agree with that. What do all political parties care about? Gaining power and keeping it, that's what. So, if those who are in the habit of voting Conservative or Lib Dem in this part of the world start making it very clear that those votes may not be cast in either of those directions come the ...
It is appalling Huw - I agree. I cannot speak for anyone else but lack of comments from me weren't due to lack of concern. So many of us are already fighting on so many different fronts at the moment. Having old people being on the wrong end of economic/welfare cuts isn't politically savvy (putting aside for one moment any moral aspects). Have you/other organisations in this predicament gone ...
Planning reference 12/03797/MAJ http://gis.teignbridge.gov.uk/TeignbridgePlanningOnline/Results.aspx?Type=Application&Refval=12/03797/MAJ
http://england.shelter.org.uk/get_advice/housing_benefit_and_local_housing_allowance/housing benefit_changes_2013 and the info in this leaflet produced by Leeds City Council may also be of use (can't find anything similar produced by TDC). http://www.leeds.gov.uk/docs/Welfare%20Reform%20Booklet.pdf
