Home blocked by scaffolding after repair delay

Baha Uddin lives in the Slough council house with his wife and their four children

A father-of-four said he felt "hopeless" after scaffolding had been left on his family home for months without any building work taking place.

Baha Uddin, from Slough, Berkshire, said the structure was put up around his council house in March after he reported problems with the roof.

But the tenant said no work had taken place in three months, leaving the family unable to open windows in the summer.

Slough Borough Council did not explain the delay but apologised and said work would be completed "within the next couple of weeks".

The family said they had not been told exactly what was wrong with their house

Mr Uddin said the scaffolding meant he could not let his children outside in the garden to play.

“I reported problems because this house is cold and mouldy," he told the Local Democracy Reporting Service (LDRS).

"Finally they found something is wrong with the roof, then the people who were going to do the work found another serious problem."

But Mr Uddin said no-one had explained what the problems were, or when they were going to be fixed.

He said: “I’ve called the people who are supposed to do the job.

"A guy comes every week and checks the scaffolding, but no-one comes and does the work. I feel hopeless.”

A Slough Borough Council spokesperson said the scaffolding had been erected for "longer than we anticipated" and apologised for the delay.

The authority did not say what issues it had found with the property.