the council flat below me has been allocated for the mentaly handycapped sould ihave been toldof this.i own mi

Answer 1

Have you ever heard of 'Equality and Diversity'? Perhaps you could use a little training.

Answer 2

Just because someone is mentally handicapped doesn't mean they don't have a right to live in a decent home! It may be someone who is quite independent but will have regular visits from helpers. If you, for example, suffered from brain damage through an accident but were still fairly independent would you want to live in a mental institution?! As others have said, better that than druggies or criminals living below you. I'm sure whoever will be living below you would have had a lot of help and counselling to make sure they can cope quite adequately alone. Are you thinking that mentally handicapped people are dangerous because you are stereotyping if so?! Oh and Mikey you should be deleted too because you are so small minded and selfish. This is the 21st century, not the 13th century where people with autism or some mild mental disability would have been locked up for life. What's wrong with you people. You'd better hope you don't suffer brain damage some day because would you like it if people said these things about you?

Answer 3

The same happened in the block I used to live in. Two mentally handicapped people moved temporarily into the Ground Floor flat, which was fine but the reason they were moved in was because one of the fell into the open fire at their last place & the room was badly damaged.
I worried about the safety of the block the whole time they were there.
We were not informed until after they had moved in. Now there is a guy in the top floor flat who, when he takes his medication, is no problem. However, when he forgets to take it he runs around the garden in his underwear, swears at people in the street out of his open window &, worst of all, fell asleep with the bath water running twice & flooded the 2 flats below his. He is not insured, the council said it was not their responsibility & the 2 tenants below had to claim from their own insurance for the damage.

Answer 4

David, none of us get to chose our neighbours. Hence, for the really rich, there are gated communities where the rest of the world can be shut out and only like-minded people let in. With more money comes more choice of housing. Your neighbours in a council flat have had amongst the least choices of where they are living of any section of the community. They've not been able to go to an estate agent and choose a property. As you say, they have been "allocated" one - ie someone else decided that they were going to live there. Quite likely they had little or no choice whatsoever about the location, or the type, of property.

The council are under no legal obligation to notify you of a change in the tenancy of your neighbouring property. You say that you own your property, whilst you similarly say "the council flat below me". Those two statements are almost incompatible. If you live above a council flat, surely you are a leaseholder? In such a position, the building remains the property of the council, you merely have a set of acquired rights by virtue of purchasing a lease of your flat for a fixed period of years. In which case, nothing in your lease would give you a right of veto over the occupation of the neighbouring flat. Equally, nothing in your neighbour's tenancy agreement would give them the right to veto who gets to purchase the leasehold from you in the event that you were to sell it on. Council flats are only incredibly rarely sold on a freehold basis, such as when all of the properties in the block have departed from the council's ownership. Yours sounds like it is not in that position. I suspect you don't "own" your flat, you simply have a leasehold of it. It's not the same thing. You would have been told when you purchased whether your were purchasing a leasehold or a freehold of the flat. Think back.

When you say "mentally handicapped" you are demonstrating your own prejudices. You are making a set of assumptions and prescribing negative attributes to people who you may not even have met that constitute prejudice on grounds of disability. Your leasehold agreement, if written within the past decade by a local authority, quite likely contains a clause saying that you will not harrass or cause alarm to another individual either occupying or visiting the neighbouring flat on several grounds, likely to include disability. You might want to re-read it given that if your neighbour read your question and identified it as written by you, and they were alarmed or distressed by it, then you could be found to be in violation of your own leasehold agreement, giving the council grounds to end the lease of the property you currently occupy. Had you considered that?

You likely didn't buy the right to 'vet' your neighbours. So why don't you try to reach out the olive branch of friendship to them? After all, they're going to live there whether you like it or not.

Answer 5

No... Why Should You Have Been Told.
Why Don't You Be A Good Neighbour And Say Hello They Are Human You Know.
They Are Just As We Are
They Just May Need A Little More Help And Kindness.
Keep Smiling You Will Be Fine.

Answer 6

cant really answer your specific query but I would suggest you find out what type of mental handicap the person/people have who will be living in the flat. Mental handicap is not necessarily what you might think. people with autism are mentally handicapped but range in their abilities from the absolutely brilliant (spike milligan, patrick moore type people) right through to people very much locked into their own world who do not understand our social norms. This can seem scary and very wierd to us but we seem the same to them and there are a hell of a lot more of us!!

Basically what I wanted to say to you is that you may well have a gripe with the council tho I expect your lease will be well written with a good slant towards the council, but give your neighbours a chance when they arrive. They are in an equally problematic and worrying situation.

Answer 7

The flats at the end of my road were allocated to the mentally disabled and I wasn't told in advance. I've nothing against the flats being used for this purpose, but i think the council should have told residents about any developments, as some people may have objections.

Answer 8

maybe they thought you'd fit in!

I would have thought you should have been told. It's all very well all these righteous people asking what the problem is...but I don't think I'd want it either. It's going to give you problems if you ever decide to sell your property (" Oh, and by the way...downstairs is allocated for mental people") Before people start getting all pompous and superior on me, as is the norm here, my brother was mentally ill before he died, and besides the fact that I loved him dearly, to tell you the truth, I wouldn't want a total stranger with problems like his, living next door to me and neither would he come to think of it.

Can someone delete akkinon2000...talking of mental people.

Answer 9

There is many thing the government or medias shoulkd have told you...but they don't...

They are the Illuminatis, and they own you,
This is the New World Order, and it is your future if the world don't wake up :

And this is what Bush’s minions had to say in 2000;-
"Further, the process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor"
Project for the New American Century (2000)

“Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.”
Hermann Göring(Nazi) 1946 Nuremberg Trials

"We are on the verge of a global transformation. All we need is the right major crisis and the nations will accept the New World Order."
David Rockefeller: Statement to the Untied Nations Business Council in September 1994

"For more than a century, ideological extremists at either end of the political spectrum have seized upon well-publicized incidents to attack the Rockefeller family for the inordinate influence they claim we wield over American political and economic institutions. Some even believe we are part of a secret cabal working against the best interests of the United States, characterizing my family and me as 'internationalists' and of conspiring with other around the world to build a more integrated global political and economic structure - one world, if you will. If that is the charge, I stand guilty, and I am proud of it." David Rockefellers memoirs (2002)

Answer 10

Sounds like the flat above them has also been allocated to a retarded person.