A woman who has endured years of her home being plagued by a mystery cold draft could soon be getting warm this winter, after a tenants union stepped in and took up her battle with Bristol City Council.
The council house tenant, Sharon, has spent more than five years living in a house in Fishponds, Bristol, where her living room was always freezing and she couldn’t work out why. Sharon has been writing to the council’s housing department for nearly six years, and through all the processes of trying to get something done to solve the issues, but it was only when she joined tenants union ACORN Bristol in the summer that things are now happening.
Now, Bristol City Council’s housing department - faced with the threat of ACORN members from across Bristol descending on City Hall with a stereo to blast out songs from the musical Frozen - has agreed on a large scale programme of works to the house.
