A fed-up hospital worker who was stuck in a mouldy flat for five years has been given £500 in compensation - the equivalent to just one month's rent. Kirsty Higgs was living in a flat with mould and damp in her bedroom, bathroom, kitchen, living room and spare room until she was finally moved out in November 2021.
Kirsty shared her plight with StokeonTrentLive back in January 2021, complaining the mould had spread even further in her Clayton flat, but it still took her landlord, Aspire Housing, 10 months to move her to somewhere else. Fortunately, the home where she was moved to, in Newcastle-under-Lyme, does not have any of the same issues she suffered with at her old place.
More than a year on, housing association Aspire Housing has accepted it should have responded "more urgently" and got on with major roofing repairs much sooner. Details of their apology and offer of compensation have come to light after the death of two-year-old Awaab Ishak.
