MQ - Would you want to stay?
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MQ - Would you want to stay?
Ex-RAF Wife Battles MOD over Married Quarter
Six years of fighting to stay in an MQ? Would you bother?
Six years of fighting to stay in an MQ? Would you bother?
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The Mail also needs to kick the backside of their copy writer...
lived at the property for RAF personal with her husband
Mrs Nicholas, who was has been married
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I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
As I read it, it is an MOD property but is it on a patch?
If I had no where else to go and had been there as long as she has, and separated for 6 years at least, yes.
What about the husband? Has he stopped paying?
If I had no where else to go and had been there as long as she has, and separated for 6 years at least, yes.
What about the husband? Has he stopped paying?
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I had some (small amount of) sympathy when I read the headline, having known mates' widows on more than one occasion being given notice to quit - and then suffering a non-gentle March Out.
That said, I was imagining a year or so at most (I think you get 3 months "grace" without question) but 6 years!!!
Sorry Mrs Nicholas - that's taking the p!$$.
That said, I was imagining a year or so at most (I think you get 3 months "grace" without question) but 6 years!!!
Sorry Mrs Nicholas - that's taking the p!$$.
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I had some (small amount of) sympathy when I read the headline, having known mates' widows on more than one occasion being given notice to quit - and then suffering a non-gentle March Out.
That said, I was imagining a year or so at most (I think you get 3 months "grace" without question) but 6 years!!!
Sorry Mrs Nicholas - that's taking the p!$$.
That said, I was imagining a year or so at most (I think you get 3 months "grace" without question) but 6 years!!!
Sorry Mrs Nicholas - that's taking the p!$$.
In my opinion the mates' widows you refer to should have had more support to stay in their quarters, if they so wished.
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I'.m sure if you write to the editor he/she will be most concerned and thank you for pointing out such an outrageous error. You could also take the time to explain to him the meaning of "bunt" and congratulate him on the expose of teh MOD main building refurbishment scandal.
PS I have left some typos in here for your enjoyment
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Ecce Homo! Loquitur...
IIRC an eviction order was required to be served so that the evictee could prove to the council they were not voluntarily homeless in order to be provided with council accommodation.
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Looking at it from another point of view, they need her evicting, if they fail it could set a legal precedent for families leaving the services, or even for singlies living in Service accomodation if she is allowed to stay put..
The sell the house to the local Authority route also seems to be a minefield in the offing..
What next, right to buy?
The sell the house to the local Authority route also seems to be a minefield in the offing..
What next, right to buy?
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Looking at it from another point of view, they need her evicting, if they fail it could set a legal precedent for families leaving the services, or even for singlies living in Service accomodation if she is allowed to stay put..
The sell the house to the local Authority route also seems to be a minefield in the offing..
The sell the house to the local Authority route also seems to be a minefield in the offing..
Why - it is going to be sold anyway; why not sell it to the LA who have a remit to increase their housing stock - no minefield if intent is there to do some good
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I have personal experience of this.
1. As I approached de-mob, I secured a job offer with Big Airways at Heathrow. Knowing we would now settle locally (I was at Northolt) we made an offer on a vacant maisonette and set about buying it. There was a bureaucratic hold up and we were still in our quarter when the 60 days notice ran out. The Families office said they would start eviction proceedings and I said "Fine. But the court would not kick us out in our particular circumstances" So they backed off and we eventually moved out two months later.
2. Our friend's husband left his family and moved to "live in". The Families Office gave our friend 60 days notice. Hillingdon council refused to rehouse her as she "had no connection with the borough". If she left the MQ she would have made herself "voluntarily homeless" and the council would have no obligation to rehouse the family. When her 60 days expired, the RAF initiated eviction proceedings and after two years she was evicted at which point the council had a statutory duty to rehouse her and the children. Forty years later she still lives in that new home.
I suspect this case is something similar to our friend's situation.
1. As I approached de-mob, I secured a job offer with Big Airways at Heathrow. Knowing we would now settle locally (I was at Northolt) we made an offer on a vacant maisonette and set about buying it. There was a bureaucratic hold up and we were still in our quarter when the 60 days notice ran out. The Families office said they would start eviction proceedings and I said "Fine. But the court would not kick us out in our particular circumstances" So they backed off and we eventually moved out two months later.
2. Our friend's husband left his family and moved to "live in". The Families Office gave our friend 60 days notice. Hillingdon council refused to rehouse her as she "had no connection with the borough". If she left the MQ she would have made herself "voluntarily homeless" and the council would have no obligation to rehouse the family. When her 60 days expired, the RAF initiated eviction proceedings and after two years she was evicted at which point the council had a statutory duty to rehouse her and the children. Forty years later she still lives in that new home.
I suspect this case is something similar to our friend's situation.
I don't own this space under my name. I should have leased it while I still could
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Quite so, but there seems a little difference between 60 days/2 years and 6 years as reported.
When her 60 days expired, the RAF initiated eviction proceedings and after two years she was evicted at which point the council had a statutory duty to rehouse her