{"id":141505,"date":"2021-10-12T17:46:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T17:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=141505"},"modified":"2021-10-12T17:46:54","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T17:46:54","slug":"mums-fury-as-home-stinks-of-mould-after-pipe-burst-and-council-only-gave-her-rags-to-clean-it-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/mums-fury-as-home-stinks-of-mould-after-pipe-burst-and-council-only-gave-her-rags-to-clean-it-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Mum\u2019s fury as home 'stinks of mould' after pipe burst – and council 'only gave her rags to clean it up\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

A MUM is fuming about her council home \u201cstinking of mould\u201d after a pipe burst – but she was only "given rags\u201d to clean the sodden mess up.<\/p>\n

Claire Connor, 29, and her asthmatic two-year-old daughter are also having to deal with an ant infestation in their Huddersfield, West Yorks, house.<\/p>\n


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The mental health services volunteer told Yorkshire Live that they have ants scurrying through "the kitchen and living room\u201d.<\/p>\n

Aside from the annoying critters, her bedroom "just stinks of mould, because it got absolutely soaked from the flood," she complained.<\/p>\n

But Connor said she was at her wit\u2019s end due to being fobbed off and \u201cpassed back and forth\u201d by bureaucrats at Kirklees Housing. <\/p>\n

She\u2019s also had to delay an operation for her toddler\u2019s sleep apnoea – a common and potentially serious condition in which a person stops breathing during sleep – because of the damp.<\/p>\n

Connor said the constant \u201chorrible damp smell\u201d makes the home \u201cnot nice to live in and it's not nice when you have a daughter who suffers from asthma\u201d.<\/p>\n

The mould problem worsened after a burst pipe from her boiler flooded the house in early August.<\/p>\n

She claimed: "After it happened, I was told I had to stay in the property because they had nowhere else to put me and my two year old.<\/p>\n

"It absolutely flooded my whole bedroom, flooring, clothes got ruined – it came through the ceiling of the living room, my sofa was soaked, my flooring was absolutely soaking.<\/p>\n

"All they did was leave me a bag of rags to clean up with – that's all the help I was given."<\/p>\n

Connor alleged that the council \u201cleft me to it\u201d and she had to sort out her own emergency accommodation \u201cbecause the council wouldn't help me, my housing officer wouldn't help me\u201d.<\/p>\n

The mum described her mental health as \u201cshocking\u201d as the stressful situation has been \u201caffecting me a lot\u201d.<\/p>\n

All they did was leave me a bag of rags to clean up with – that's all the help I was given.<\/p>\n

She has lived in the council home for two years, but says she initially accepted the property \u201cout of desperation because I was 38 weeks\u2019 pregnant\u201d.<\/p>\n

Connor said the lack of response to the mould, ant infestation and flooding has left her unimpressed with officials from Kirklees Neighbourhood Housing (KNH) and Kirklees Council.<\/p>\n

So she complained to local councillor Andrew Cooper, leader of the Green party.<\/p>\n

He said: "I think everybody deserves to live in clean and dry conditions.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere are things sorting out that need to be addressed and I wouldn't be happy if I was in that situation.\u201d<\/p>\n

Her complaint has been referred to KNH, which told Cllr Cooper the problems were being addressed.<\/p>\n

The council was contacted for comment.<\/p>\n


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