A family has won £20,000 from a South London council after it blamed their “lifestyle” for a years-long damp problem that caused mould to grow on a baby’s cot.
Lewisham Council failed to investigate the “root cause” of the issue and was still insisting a yearly mould wash was enough to deal with the problem - eight years after the unnamed resident first reported a leak, a Housing Ombudsman report published on Thursday revealed.
