All local authorities will have to publish fresh guidance
on housing, following a Supreme Court judgement. The UK’s highest court allowed
an appeal by a mother-of-five who was made homeless by Westminster Council
after she refused accommodation fifty miles away in Milton Keynes. Titina
Nzolameso argued that Westminster had failed to adequately seek suitable
accommodation for her and her children in, or closer to, the borough. Her
initial legal challenge was rejected, and her children were taken into care,
while she was forced into sleeping on friends’ sofas, but, by majority
decision, judges have allowed the appeal, and quashed Westminster’s decision
that the accommodation she had been offered was suitable. Read more on the
Brent & Kilburn Times website.
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