Aimee Richards lives together with her accomplice and two younger kids in a block of flats
A 23-year-old mom is more and more determined to maneuver from council flats she says are not any place to convey up two younger kids resulting from anti-social behaviour.
Aimee Richards stated a person was captured on a safety digital camera ferreting round bin luggage in a communal space exterior her flat carrying solely boxer shorts that did not cowl him up correctly and a sock. He was making unusual noises.
Miss Richards additionally claimed somebody tried to tear off the rear quantity plate of her automobile, which was parked exterior her block at Weig Gardens, Gendros, Swansea, in March. She stated the quantity plate was damaged. On one other event, this month, footage exhibits a lady showing within the communal space exterior her third-floor flat in a dressing robe apparently within the bins.
Miss Richards shares her flat together with her accomplice and their son, who is sort of three, and daughter, who is sort of two. She claimed she may typically odor hashish and that noise was an issue, specific for her son. She stated: “He says, ‘Mammy I am scared.’ I do not need him extra traumatised than he already is.” She added: “The odor of weed is disgusting.”
Miss Richards has spoken to Swansea Council’s housing division, South Wales Police and the workplace of Gower MP Tonia Antoniazzi about her issues and is on a housing ready record. She contacted the Native Democracy Reporting Service about her situation final September and, talking this week, stated it had worsened, leading to her being prescribed anti-depressants. She already has a again situation referred to as lumbar spondylosis.
Miss Richards stated she was the one dad or mum of younger kids in her block, and that she had put netting on her balcony to discourage her son attempting to climb up it.
She and her accomplice, Rhys Davey, who works as a supply driver, have lived within the flat for greater than three years. She’s tried utilizing a web based council housing service referred to as HomeSwapper, which permits tenants to swap their properties, however stated no-one was .
Miss Richards desires to maneuver to a three-bedroom home, and stated in a prolonged message to a housing officer final September that she’d discovered one was apparently turning into obtainable domestically. She stated it wanted some work and that she’d blissful to attend till the work was performed, however nothing got here of it. By no means miss a Swansea story by signing up to our newsletter here
Talking final September Miss Richards claimed she had discovered drug needles within the block and that urine and typically excrement had been left in communal areas. Her accomplice, she stated, had suffered post-traumatic stress dysfunction after a tragic incident involving a Weig Gardens tenant.
South Wales Police wrote a letter to the council final 12 months saying it was conscious of 10 reviews of “critical points” within the neighborhood of Miss Richards’ property within the final two years. The letter stated there was an rising danger of her kids “witnessing drawback behaviour” and requested the council to think about a transfer for the household as a precedence.
A police spokesman stated this week: “Our neighbourhood policing staff are conscious of reported incidents on the location and proceed to patrol the world. We urge any resident residing within the neighborhood to report any felony exercise to us by the proper channels.”
Referring to the incident with the person within the boxer shorts, the police spokesman stated a 49-year-old had been arrested in relation to a report of indecent publicity however there was inadequate proof to cost him with any offences. The spokesman stated enquiries have been made in relation to a report of quantity plate harm however that once more there was inadequate proof to take it additional.
Swansea Council stated its housing groups continued to work with police to deal with anti-social behaviour within the space. A spokesman stated: “We’re persevering with to assist the tenant in her request for a switch to a different property and she or he has been awarded the suitable variety of factors in relation to her housing circumstances.”
The council replied to a letter from the workplace of Ms Antoniazzi about Miss Richards’s residing state of affairs saying she was on the highest ten of the housing ready record in some areas and had been awarded “housing want” factors to replicate her circumstances.
The council’s letter stated different Weig Gardens residents have been experiencing comparable points, nevertheless it recognised that Miss Richards’ medical situations have been being negatively affected by residing within the flat.
Concerning the empty home domestically Miss Richards was eager to maneuver to, the letter stated the housing officer wasn’t conscious of it however that, if obtainable, it might have been allotted to the household on the prime of the ready record on the day.
