Lodge moor council flats- rehoming problem people?

[avblade09]

Sorry for digging up an old thread but after just seeing a news article about an old neighbour of mine, and spotting this thread on google, i thought id share my experience. 

 

Me and my girlfriend moved into a flat on Westminster Crescent in Nov 2017. For the first 2ish years it was absolutely fine there, but then as the original poster, albeit 9 years ago, asks, we had some "characters" moved in by the council.

 

As I mentioned, 1 of these characters has made the news https://www.thestar.co.uk/news/crime/nuisance-neighbour-harassed-fellow-residents-sheffield-flats-saying-he-will-kill-people-3046714 where he threatened to kill a couple of elderly residents, was homophobic to another and racist to a copper that arrested him. Pretty much every couple of nights, we'd hear him screaming down the phone he was going to kill someone, resulting in many police attendances, so it wasnt surprising to hear he'd done it to his own neighbours.

 

However, i give you character #2. He moved in sept 2019, and honestly, he was worse than the first. All day drug n booze binges, overnight parties and raves, 7 days a week. Ive been talking to the council for over a year and the biggest action was them going round to tell him to stop... which ofcourse didnt work. He threatened my girlfriend when she walked past him one day. Before we moved out, he set his sofa on fire after an all dayer and fire brigade had to boot his door in to put it out.

 

I could go on and on. Both of these characters are a waste of space, caused so much nuisance to elderly and vulnerable neighbours. So after the councils lack of action, we moved out just before christmas and are now in Hillsborough. 

 

Long story short... yes, the council are still bunging these sorts into the Westminster area. No, i would not recommend living there.

Edited January 10, 2021 by avblade09

[Sheffield Monks]

My mother in law lives in a one bed flat, it's a block of 6 and when she moved in all the flats were occupied by people 60 or over. My mother in law gave up her 3 bed council house once all the children had left home so that another family could live there. Now she's the only over 60 who lives in the flats, she's nearly 80.

The flats are all occupied by youngsters. Over the years she's a wide range of neighbours, most despite being druggies or alcoholics have never bothered her apart from one couple who used to keep her up half the night with noise.

I do worry about her living there because you never know who is going to be moved in next and she is getting more vulnerable with every year that passes.

[francypants]

The same thing happened at Longley.    My relatives were both in their late 60s when they moved into a lovely one bed ground floor flat. This was in the 1990s and all the flats were intended for the elderly.   For a number of years it had a lovely community feel.  People took pride in their homes and even tended the garden areas around their homes ( even though they didn't have to because the council came round planting and cutting grass etc. )  The tenants just enjoyed doing it.  They helped each other with shopping etc and cleaned the communal areas of the flats.     Roll on a few years and the council started housing younger people,  single parent families,  alcoholics and druggies in any flats which became vacant and the whole place went downhill very fast.   People were afraid of going out,  my relative ( then in her 70s ) was mugged whilst on her way up to the local shops.  As the existing elderly tenants passed away, they were replaced by more and more undesirables who couldn't give a damn how they lived and didn't respect the remaining elderly people trying to live a good, peaceful life.  The whole place became a pig sty.    My relatives have both passed away now, the last one only 3 years ago and I hate to think what state their lovely flat is now in.

 

[Sheffield Monks]

It appears that the council have created a vicious circle. Older council house or maisonette residents would ideally be housed in these one bed  flats when like my MIL the children leave home freeing up a two or three bedroom house for a young family to move into however because the council have put younger people some with and without addiction or single parents (who shouldn't be house in a one bedroom flat)  older people don't want to move into areas which have become sink estates or areas where drug use and crime is common place.

 

[bungleboy69]

Anyone know what the flats on Westminster are like at the moment? Have a friend who's thinking of moving there...