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The Great Leeds tenant rip off

tenant | 07.02.2006 22:41 | Social Struggles

Leeds homes formally Leeds City Council are attempting to rip off residents in a dubious legality scam.



The Great Leeds tenant rip off

Leeds homes formally Leeds City Council are attempting to rip off residents in a dubious legality scam.

Under Government rules all homes must be brought up to a government standard by 2010 at the latest, part of these requirements are that central heating be installed in all homes as a matter of course, residents of these homes have already seen inflation busting rent rises over the past years and now to add insult the council want residents to pay for central heating to be installed in to houses that they do not own.
If residents would like central heating installed they must pay
£3.50 per week for one or two bedrooms
£3.75 per week for 3 bedrooms
£4.40 per week for 4 bedrooms

Contracts have been placed with a local company to install central heating with prices in the range of £1450 per house, with a expected life expectancy of 15 years per system, perhaps Leeds Homes would like to explain why they want to charge residents £3432 for a central heating system that they have to install anyway when they already pay rent for such a home.
The scheme is nothing short of a complete scam and rip off.
What next, an extra £5 for a flushing toilet /
£10 for running hot water ?
£5 for a front door that closes
£10 for some windows that actually close.

Leeds homes, stop ripping off tenants and tell the truth, fitting central heating is a requirement of the government upon yourselves, perhaps they are hoping they can claw back some of the millions wasted on the dead end super tram, when they could have built new protected cycle lanes and bought every resident a new bike for less money

tenant

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surely that’s part of the untitles

08.02.2006 12:59

And the Leeds South home representative is from British Gas?

I didn’t think that the tenant was responsible for heating, surely that’s part of the untitles?


very weird.
weebee

weebee
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possible source for advice and support

08.02.2006 14:00


Defend Council Housing national campaign:
 http://www.defendcouncilhousing.org.uk

(Lobbying Parliament this very second!)

Mr Spoon


Potential news story...

09.02.2006 21:56

Hi there,

Im a journalism student at Leeds University and am really interested in covering this story... If you are a tenant of Leeds Homes and will be affected by these installations, do not hesitate to contact me on  jojo_eng@hotmail.com

Any comments would be very much appreciated!

Cheers, Jo.

Jo
mail e-mail: jojo_eng@hotmail.com


CENTRAL HEATING

28.03.2006 10:02

I KNOW A ONE PARENT FAMILY ON BENEFITS WHO AS JUST HAD CENTRAL HEATING FITTED IN THE NEVILLES IN LEEDS AND IS BEING CHARGED SO MUCH A WEEK IS THIS RIGHT? SHOULD SHE BE PAYING ANYTHING AT ALL AND IF NOT AS LEEDS CITY COUNCIL COMMITTED A CRIMINAL ACT LIKE FRAUD.

david barker