A Nottingham woman says that she is desperate to move out of her three-bedroom council house into a one-bedroom bungalow as she battles a dangerous brain condition. Dawn Gayle, 58, has lived in her current property in Bestwood for 19 years but in 2019, she began enquiring about how she could move closer to her wheelchair-bound parents in Bulwell.
Things became more urgent towards the beginning of 2021, when doctors found cysts on Mrs Gayle's brain which cannot be drained and which lead to regular, unexpected blackouts. As well as caring for her 82-year-old parents, Mrs Gayle now wants to be closer to her family in Bulwell in case anything happens to her.
But she said: "I've probably bidded on nine bungalows and I'm still no further. There was one particular bungalow that I was hoping for and that someone else got, but then within a year they had left because they decided they didn't like it.
