It may have royal connections, but Stephen Warr’s rented
home is certainly no palace. He describes the damp, dilapidated cottage owned
by the Crown Estate as “unfit for animals”. With chunks of plaster hanging from
the ceiling, rotting floorboards and mould growing on the walls, it looks more
like the inner-city property of a slum landlord. Yet the taxpayer is forking
out £484 a month in housing benefit for the former farm worker to live there.
The cottage is owned by the vast £8.6 billion Crown Estate, which will earn the
Queen around £39 million this year. The estate received £38,539 in housing
benefit from West Somerset Council alone last year. Read more on the Daily Mirror website.
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