Our 20+ year nightmare living in the house of horrors
Our 20+ year nightmare living in the house of horrors
The website summarises the author’s view of the Local Authority’s handling of the case and the plight of the Finegan family and their two children who are fighting to get justice in protecting their rights to live in their own home.
It highlights the ongoing battles they have had over the past 20+ years to try and move towards a satisfactory conclusion.
The video above includes a statement that the council had prepared a scheme that would cost £55,000 and that this scheme would totally overhaul the property and bring it back up to a good standard.
The reliance of the council on this scheme is fraught with difficulties as it was prepared by a temporary employee working in the grants department, as a desk study in November 2009. This scheme was deemed as merely cosmetic and the council’s surveyors themselves commented that these works alone would not bring the property to the required fitness standard.
Detailed schemes were provided by various consulting engineers which all stressed that a side extension would be essential and would provide a buttress to the now exposed party wall as the best technical means of achieving stability by creating a gable wall but this was not part of the scheme prepared by the council.
We live in the outskirts of a small village in north-east Wales called Pontblyddyn.
Our house, was until 1996 a mid terraced property in a row of three cottages. Built in 1871, it has been modernised to a very high standard. Our problems began in 1989...
