Council to sell damp-ridden homes which are ‘threat to health’

Newark & Sherwood District Council is looking to sell off three homes with chronic damp and mould problems. More than 100 repair jobs have been carried out at the three properties on London Road in Balderton in the last seven years.

A report going before Cabinet next week says that repairing or rebuilding the homes would be expensive and time-consuming, and recommends that they are sold off.The damp has appeared in the homes’ kitchens, bathrooms and an upstairs bedroom despite frequent attempts to deal with it. A total of 62 repair jobs have been carried out at one property since 2017 and 51 at another, compared to an expected number three or four per year.

The buildings were originally agricultural barns which were converted into Victorian terrace houses. The necessary repairs to keep the council homes in service would cost just over £330,000, and the remaining tenant would need to be moved for around nine months.

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