Comments on: To semi- and regular-readers http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2007/12/30/to-semi-and-regular-readers/ Liberal, Green and Fair Sat, 13 Feb 2010 07:56:33 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Anon http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2007/12/30/to-semi-and-regular-readers/#comment-47535 Anon Tue, 17 Jun 2008 09:32:14 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2007/12/30/to-semi-and-regular-readers/#comment-47535 As for ADC being well run, I would have to question you on that. I live in a ADC managed flat and have been trying since the beginning of the year to have them address the problem of mould and damp, I have a selection of black and green mould and puddles on the floor every morning in my bedroom. I have reported this several times to the council along with the problem of another tennant in the block that continually causes noise and damage to the block and hosts parties that end in street fighting at 4am and having communal doors regularly smashed, and yet nothing has changed in several years. And then there's the mice, a problem that the council want to charge us to have dealt with. These problems I share with the neighbours above me and we have both tried to call the council to account and failed, simply being fed excuses about it not being legal for them to take action on anything at all. I simply do not believe that this is due to these matters being controlled outside the council, I personally feel that this is simply a good excuse, after all, the environmental health dept would certainly get involved if this were not a council owned property. If these and other matters are truly out of ADC's hands, please can you tell me in who's hands they are? I would dearly like to ask them why I am waking up after sleepless nights, wheezing and dodging mouse excrement. As for ADC being well run, I would have to question you on that.
I live in a ADC managed flat and have been trying since the beginning of the year to have them address the problem of mould and damp, I have a selection of black and green mould and puddles on the floor every morning in my bedroom.
I have reported this several times to the council along with the problem of another tennant in the block that continually causes noise and damage to the block and hosts parties that end in street fighting at 4am and having communal doors regularly smashed, and yet nothing has changed in several years.
And then there’s the mice, a problem that the council want to charge us to have dealt with.
These problems I share with the neighbours above me and we have both tried to call the council to account and failed, simply being fed excuses about it not being legal for them to take action on anything at all.
I simply do not believe that this is due to these matters being controlled outside the council, I personally feel that this is simply a good excuse, after all, the environmental health dept would certainly get involved if this were not a council owned property.
If these and other matters are truly out of ADC’s hands, please can you tell me in who’s hands they are? I would dearly like to ask them why I am waking up after sleepless nights, wheezing and dodging mouse excrement.

]]> By: Alan http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2007/12/30/to-semi-and-regular-readers/#comment-33552 Alan Mon, 31 Dec 2007 22:11:47 +0000 http://www.gavpolitics.co.uk/blog/2007/12/30/to-semi-and-regular-readers/#comment-33552 I know how you feel. I have stopped blogging for a number of reasons, some of which are similar to your own reasons (esp. no. 1). But now (I think) I am back, with a new-look website and an increased appetite for politics. Why? Well, as a family, we have made the decision to move back to the UK. Might not be for a year, but the decision is made. Hope that you find your spirit again.... I know how you feel. I have stopped blogging for a number of reasons, some of which are similar to your own reasons (esp. no. 1). But now (I think) I am back, with a new-look website and an increased appetite for politics. Why? Well, as a family, we have made the decision to move back to the UK. Might not be for a year, but the decision is made.

Hope that you find your spirit again….

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