A family of four who have been living in a cramped studio flat for more than half a decade are in line to get a new home after a court ruled that a council unlawfully excluded them. Milton, his wife Cecilia, and their two teenage children were denied a place on Southwark Council's housing register after they were accused of overcrowding their home in a "deliberate act".
But now the High Court has ruled that the council was in the wrong. The family tried to join the housing register in 2018, but was refused priority status when the authority blamed them for overcrowding their home.
That was in spite of the council's own policy stating that they should have been prioritised due to the severity of their overcrowded living situation, reports MyLondon.
