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| Photo: Connor Creaghan for The Lincolnite A new report, which reveals 31 people in Louth were sleeping rough last year, has highlighted how invisible the issue in East Lindsey can be. A report before the Overview Committee next Tuesday (June 1) shows that the average nightly number of people sleeping rough in the district dropped by more than 77% in three years, councillors will be told next week. An annual snapshot showed the number of people on the district’s streets on a “typical night” was down from 18 in 2018, to four in 2020. “We are proud that at many points over the year, th...

MORE than 150 households in Worcester were assessed as either being homeless or at risk of homelessness last winter.

The homes are purchased in part, using money from Right to Buy receipts. This is the money the council gets from selling council homes to existing tenants and which it has to use to fund further housing otherwise it has to be repaid to the HM Treasury. Three of the homes are single bedroom and were bought using £600,000 of Government funding for the Next Steps Accommodation Programme. The properties will be used as non-secure tenancies to help those moving on from homelessness. And the scheme is similar to Housing First, where a stable home is given to a vulnerable person who wants a...

However, the real question is why did we get to this position in Ipswich in the first place? And how do we ensure that going forward we avoid this from happening? It was reported this week that it will probably cost around £100,000 to just get the pigeon faeces removed from the Paul’s Silo building. It is so caked onto the walls and the floors inside that it requires a mammoth industrial clean to even make it safe to occupy. No wonder it is costing that much just to remove the poo! Nothing symbolises the problem we have more than this £100,000 figure. It costs this much because the buildi...

However, the real question is why did we get to this position in Ipswich in the first place? And how do we ensure that going forward we avoid this from happening? It was reported this week that it will probably cost around £100,000 to just get the pigeon faeces removed from the Paul’s Silo building. It is so caked onto the walls and the floors inside that it requires a mammoth industrial clean to even make it safe to occupy. No wonder it is costing that much just to remove the poo! Nothing symbolises the problem we have more than this £100,000 figure. It costs this much because the buildi...