24 Aug 2012 20:21:12 maybe not the best place to ask this question bu… · #1392

K cheers Ed, any further info or suggestions where to check it out?

{Ed033's Note - You could phone your local council and say you'd like to speak to someone about council tax

I have been told that, would not surprise me at all, i dont suppose i could get a rebate since i have 3 bedrooms and there is me the wife and three kids?
frankyscouse

It sounds to me like a different way of trying to acheive what they were trying to do before but it fell through, there are a lot of for instance 3 bedroom council houses with 1 couple living in them like when the kids have grown up and left home and an old couple see out their days in the same house but with two empty rooms. They wanted a legislation the force you to move into a 1 bedroom to free up space as the council house waiting list is massive. To be honest I agree with it, a lot of young families cant get a mortgage at the minute and theres thousands of 3/4 bedroon council houses being occupied by couples or single parents for upto 50 years after the other spare rooms have been vacated.

Matt_RFC

{Ed033's Note - 1 million properties in Britain lie empty. 350,000 of these, for over 6 months. And yet, 2 million families need a home.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lhV4q6b2-wg&feature=BFa&list=PLD6668AAFCB22CA5D

Matt i don't agree, my mum lives in a council house for around 40 years we have all left and my died died about 9 years,she has tried to down size to either a 1 bedroom bungerlow or somewhere nearer me or my sisters , they will only offer her a run down flat in a dodgy part of liverpool, plus also the desirable parts off the city the council will sell there houses if say a tenant leaves/dies etc etc
its just a money making scheme and will prob increase chav families to have more kids instead of paying something towards the rent.
frankyscouse

Yes this is true they are doing it here in n.wales after 2012 and will be charging 16-18 pound per room per week.

Yeh my grans the same franky, shes on her own now and thes in a 3 bedroom with a good size garden abd shes been there nearly 60 years, they offered her a nice bungalow but she feels like the house shes in is her house and wont move, you have certain rights as a tennent after so long even if a landlord wants to spend a fortune making a house nice they cant if the tenant doesnt want it, there are some funny laws.
Matt_RFC

Yes I saw that programme ed, its pretty stupid really they should let them go to creditable developers or housing associations. I think sometimes you have to have your common senseremoved before you are allowed into a position of authority in this country.

Matt_RFC