The Black Mould Of Death is certainly not a new episode of Doctor Who but rather the consequences of the neglect of Gateshead Council. Emma Brown and her children are now under not very subtle health threat provoked by Gateshead Council. Having refused inadequate offers of compensation for an 11 roomed home they are now faced with the consequences of Gateshead Council neglect.
The Council was ordered by a court not to demolish the houses on each side of Emma's terraced home. The problem comes with the benign neglect of those properties. Over the last 5 years at various times council workmen have left the properties insecure, damaged pipes and caused flooding, switched off utilities, failed to grit one side of the street and so on. The result is that neighbouring properties are cold, damp and attracting black mould. This is now attacking Emma's home.
All these homes were habitable property in good condition occupied by a community of good neighbours. Now, under the care of Gateshead Council, they are not being repaired and making life a misery for those residents who have chosen not to sell up. The cynical suspicion is that neglect is an active weapon used in the demolition programme to depress residents to the point at which they have to leave.
Gateshead Council should be ashamed at how they treat their own Council Tax payers. However they have little compassion and regard the tactic of making housing unhabitable as part of their role in cleansing Gateshead of working class families.
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