120 COUNCIL HOUSES LYING VACANT IN COUNTY

Date Published: 28-Jun-2011

Over 120 council houses in the county are lying vacant, despite the fact thousands of people are on the list for social housing.

The figure was revealed at this week’s meeting of the county council.

It’s understood that many of these homes have been boarded up, and are in desperate need of repair.

3 thousand 100 people are on the waiting list for social housing in the county.

With dimnished funds for next year’s housing department, just five or six new rural houses are expected to be built in the coming months.

Councillor Jim Cuddy says new plans need to be made to get people off the housing list.