The council is owed £8m for repairs to private homes. But whose fault is it: greedy home owners, the inept council, or rip-off builders?
Surely, the simplest thing would be for the Council to list the really bad (long-standing) debts in full in the Evening News, with full names and addresses of those involved, how much they owe and for what etc. StewartyThey got cowboys in to do our repairs and after 2 years the roof still leaks!JTI had a stat notice carried out at my flat and despite phoning 3 times it still took the council over a year to send me a bill for the money due and wouldn't let me pay until they sent me a bill!edinburgh1, Edinburgh Back when I was served a Statutory Order, it was clear in the text that the whole tenement could get together and get the work carried out privately (indeed at around half the cost). Then we'd have to get Council folks to certify it. If that was OK'd then the order would be lifted. The idea seemed to be that if any tenants demurred from organising things themselves, the Council would have the work done anyway and charge their own rate. It seems to me a good incentive to kick any Last Holdouts into line.A Friend of Fernando Poo, Newington Just a thought. The scaffolding rental companies must make a bomb out of it. All the tenements in my street were done at great cost and now just a few years later several have scaffolding back up redoing the work and we've had leaking roofs several times. Just what did we pay over the odds for to this shower of highway robbers?GorgieRepublic, Edinburgh Moving on, loads of Lothian smokers have been kicking the habit. Good news, surely? Not so, says Tim from Ottawa: it's a total disaster.
Smoke less, drink more - to forget the pain of withdrawal. . Be prepared for more public drunkenness, antisocial behaviour, and public vomitings and urinations and defecations as the smokers go through their withdrawal symptoms.TimW1234,Ottawa, Canada This guffbag is a right barrel of laughs. leith keely, edinburghSorry about the name-calling, but Tim was asking for it a bit, wasn't he?
From smoking to drinking now – a city pub is starting a campaign to ban Alistair Darling from every bar in Britain as punishment for raising the price of a pint.
Wow - 100 supporters! On Facebook!! What a campaign.Tookie, Compton I have already taken to 'Alistair-spotting' around Easter Road waiting for my first glimpse of our illustrious Chancellor tearfully pleading for entry into Utopia where hitherto he has been such a stalwart regular!!! Shug the Dug, Edinburgh Say what you like about the Chancellor, but Darling's an awful nice name isn't it? However, the latest science suggests we'd prefer him if his first name was Tiamii or something, like Jordan's daughter.
What a load of old cobblers! It's about as 'scientific' as those surveys where you are asked which brand of washing powder you think expresses 'freedom'. Absolute b******s!CB, Somewhere in the EU I don't think the name makes Princess Tiamii lucky or successful, it's the cash her mother's made for getting her paps out at the drop of a hat that's done that. Teofilio CubillasThe full article contains 577 words and appears in Edinburgh Evening News newspaper.
