Revamp of St Ann's is on track

“As my last post was deleted I'll try again. Guess who is a councilor for this ward?? Our dear leader.
Hoping to keep his position?”

“"Perhaps if we stopped spending money on St Ann's decade after decade there wouldn't be a charge for a spare bedroom.
I worked on the revamp of the 90's and that's was soon run down by the majority of the locals, and why, because when its broke, the tax payers will pay to fix it.
You can only attempt to polish a t... for so long before you must realise it won't shine."”

“Perhaps if we stopped spending money on St Ann's decade after decade there wouldn't be a charge for a spare bedroom.
I worked on the revamp of the 90's and that's was soon run down by the majority of the locals, and why, because when its broke, the tax payers willowy to fix it.
You can only attempt to polish a t... for so long before you must realise it won't shine.”

“I'm not affected by the Bedroom Tax, but the thing that gets me is that I'm one of the lucky ones purely by chance.

I've always had low-waged work, but because my kid's dad (who's no longer with us) moved here from London before house prices here shot through the roof, we were able to buy a house and pay off the mortgage fairly quickly. He was made redundant shortly after our second child was born and after that only managed to get short-term work. It was a real struggle, but at least we had a relatively secure home. That means my children will still have a home to come back to while they're at university, they'll still have somewhere to come back to if they're unlucky enough not to get a reasonable job, or indeed one at all, after they finish their degrees in Maths and Physics.

I'm lucky not to have developed a debilitating illness; I'm lucky not to have had a serious accident.

None of this makes me more deserving than the people who're being hit by this tax. Many of them will have paid as much in rent as I did for the mortgage. My children and I are only in this lucky position because of timing, because of sheer chance. That can't be fair.

What would be fair would be for everyone to be treated with a bit of respect, with some dignity. That wouldn't be too difficult with the political will. It was done before, after WW2. We could do it again if we wanted to.”

“Ah, so people STILL have no understanding about how the bedroom is going to badly affect people who NEED the "spare" room.

The list is endless, but here are a few examples:

People with disabilities that cause sleep problems -couple need separate rooms to sleep in to get adequate rest, especially important for the carer;

Families with an autistic child who barely sleeps and so would badly disrupt the sleep of a sibling;

People who've had their homes specially adapted;

People who have young children who are told their children have to share a room but who, in a year or so's time, will have to move again when their children are older and are no longer legally supposed to share;

People who'd like to have grandchildren to stay etc, etc;

All being penalised.


"why should others, often on modest means, pay for someone elses spare bedroom when in all probability they havent got a spare bedroom themselves." ?


- If you feel that, why don't you mind having to pay MORE for someone else's accommodation as rents in the private sector are invariably MORE for a one-bedroom property, mainly due to profiteering landlords?”

“There's plenty of one bedroom flats in the private sector. If they don't want to contribute towards their extra unsused bedrooms they can move out into a smaller property and then their rent will be fully paid for. Seems fair to me, why should others, often on modest means, pay for someone elses spare bedroom when in all probability they havent got a spare bedroom themselves. I haven't got a spare bedroom, would you like to send money to me so I can move into a bigger house and have one.”

“So, no one-bedroom-houses for all these people being penalised by the Bedroom Tax!”