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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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Adrian Zorzut

Westminster council ordered to pay compensation to family left without bedroom in damp-ridden flat for years

Westminster City Council is one of London’s wealthiest councils - (Oli Scarff/Getty Images)

A housing watchdog has said a London council which took five years to fix a tenant’s leaky roof committed “severe maladministration” and ordered a £6,000 pay-out for the tenants, a report has found.

It said a “series of failures” by Westminster City Council meant the family of three were without a bedroom and left to breath in high levels of damp ‘for years’.

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