walls, with resident Rhiannon Goodall, 38, saying: "My house feels like it's falling down around me because of the amount of damp that it's caused."
An internal audit by the council - commissioned in 2019, but only published last month - found "no procurement process was followed" and "no due diligence checks" were carried out on the companies involved.The council awarded a £315,000 contract to a company directed by Phil White, a councillor in Mr David's cabinet who died last year.Work on other homes was paid for by UK-wide schemes, funded by energy companies.
"We will of course explore that with Welsh government, with UK government and with [energy regulator] Ofgem. "But it would be difficult for Bridgend County Borough Council to compensate residents, and certainly residents where the work was nothing to do with Bridgend County Council. "We are of course very sorry about what has happened. Our priority now is making sure that work is it is put right."